1652. In Preble, Hist. of the Flag, p. 151. In a paper dated Jan.
14, 1652 ... it is ordered, ‘all the ships to wear Jacks as
formerly’.
1892. Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads, ‘The Rhyme of the Three
Captains’. Now he floated the Gridiron, and now he floated the
Jack.