Notes on the Flodden Banner, preserved at Wedderhurn 

 Castle. By Colonel Milne Home. 



(Plate XI.) 



The accompanying sketch is intended to represent what 

 has always been known in our family as " The Flodden 

 Banner." The banner is, however, but a ruined relic at 

 best, faded and frayed, from the usage, or the non-usage, 

 it has had during the centuries through which it has some- 

 how survived. The fragment which remains, and which is 

 here depicted, is 3 ft. 10 in. long by 3 ft. 3 in. wide; its 

 original dimensions must have been a little less than double 

 these measurements. (See Plate XI.) 



This flag, or rather this remnant of a flag, I exhibited to 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at their Annual Meeting 

 in Berwick last October, when my year of office as President 

 ceased. It had been previously shown by my father when 

 the Club visited Kimmerghame. (See Proceedings, vol. 

 VIII., p. 206.) But so intense was the interest in the 

 " Banner " expressed by the members present, who had not 

 seen it then, that I consented to allow its picture to be 

 specially taken, and to write a short note of its history for 

 the Club's Proceedings, in the production of which I have 

 had ready help given me by Mr Maddan, Berwick-on-Tweed, 

 and Mr Henry Paton, H.M. Register Office, Edinburgh. 

 The banner is of silk, and was apparently charged with a 

 white saltire — a St. Andrew's Cross — on a green ground ; 

 the colours are appropriate, being those of the family's 

 livery, but the cross seems to have nothing to do, herald- 

 ically, with this branch of the family. 



The banner was found in a chest at Wedderburn in 1822, 

 among a number of less ancient uniforms and dresses, with 



