“ But the creation is almost the self-same with that in the old French ceremonies by the solemn delivery of a banner charged with the arms of him that is to be created, and the cutting of the end of the pennon or streamer to make it a square or into the shape of a banner in case that he which is to be created had in the field his arms on a streamer before the creation.” The creation of bannerets is traceable, according to Selden, to the time of Edward I. “Under these bannerets,” he adds, “divers knights bachelors and esquires usually served ”