Submitted as Érennach ingen Cormaic, the byname needs to be lenited. We have done so.

Nice badge!

Her name was misspelled when registered; we have changed it to the correct form.

Note: she has permission to conflict with Eilis ni Roibeard O'Boirne (Tinctureless) A quatrefoil knot.

Nicely drawn boar's heads.

Note: he is a knight in the SCA and can used the closed loop of chain which is reserved to SCA knights.

Note: he has permission to conflict with Aethelfrith Hluda Sable, three roundels argent., and Griffin the Black, Sable, eight plates in annulo.

Note: Ofelia is her legal given name.

Note: he has received permission to presume from Aeddan ap Trahaearne.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the horse larger.

Note: fimbriation of multiple ordinaries were found in period, as in the arms of Say, c. 1586 (Papworth 550), Per pale azure and gules, three chevrons counterchanged, fimbriated argent.

Nice armory!

Her former device Argent, a seeblatt vert and a ford proper., is hereby released.

Submitted as Bianca di Ravenna, Ravenna is a place. When using a placename in Italian, da is used, as in Leonardo da Vinci.

Submitted as Elspeth O'Daimhìn, it mixed English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have therefore changed the byname to the English form.

Submitted as Maire Doran it combined Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. We have, therefore, made the name entirely Gaelic.

Submitted as Pròspero the accent is a pronunciation guide and not part of the actual name, so we have removed it.

Nice armory.

Submitted as Aisling Kensley ni Laoghaire, it mixed English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have made it totally Gaelic to bring it as close to what was submitted as possible. Since Chinnsealach derives from a descriptive byname, it is appropriate to put it before the patronymic.

Submitted as Iaian an Eilein Sgitheanaich, the LoI mistyped the given name; the forms had Iain. We have corrected this. The entire name is supposed to be Gaelic for John of the Isle of Skye. Unfortunately, the submitted form is a modern, not period form. We have substituted the period form, which means John of Skye.

Please instruct the submitter in how to properly draw a bend indented.

Found on the LoI as Anastasiia Rubleva, it had originally been submitted as Anastasia Rubleva, with the extra i had been added in kingdom. Since the original form is appropriate we have restored the name to the originally submitted form.

A possible name conflict was called with the Queen Mother of England. Her name is Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Laurel is not sure if Bowes is clear of Bowles. The removing of Lyon makes this name clear.

A number of commenters were concerned about the wreath, wondering if it was too close to a laurel wreath, which is reserved to the arms of official SCA groups. However, this wreath has been registered to individuals at least twice before, in September 1992 to Alanna of Volchevo Lesa Azure, a wolf statant ululant to sinister argent within an oak chaplet Or., and in March 1993 to Drahomira Jaroslavna Per saltire vert and gules, a fret and overall an oak chaplet, a bordure Or. While we share some of the concerns brought up by the college, we are following the precedents set by previous Laurel Sovereigns of Arms and registering this.

A number of commenters were concerned about the wreath, wondering if it was too close to a laurel wreath, which is reserved to the arms of official SCA groups. However, this wreath has been registered to individuals at least twice before, in September 1992 to Alanna of Volchevo Lesa Azure, a wolf statant ululant to sinister argent within an oak chaplet Or., and in March 1993 to Drahomira Jaroslavna Per saltire vert and gules, a fret and overall an oak chaplet, a bordure Or. While we share some of the concerns brought up by the college, we are following the precedents set by previous Laurel Sovereigns of Arms and registering this.

There are period examples of a divided field with an ordinary counterchanged and fimbriated, for instance Say c. 1586 (Papworth 550) Per pale azure and gules, three chevrons counterchanged, fimbriated argent.

The armory was submitted under the name Alana Cleary.

Nice badge!

His former device Per chevron sable and purpure, in chief three mullets and in base an annulet argent., is to be retained as a badge.

Note: Peter has the following badge registered to him: Sable, on a pile inverted between two mullets argent a wyvern displayed purpure. Possible conflicts were called against Isabel Vyell McLeod Per chevron throughout sable and argent, two compass-stars argent and a brown bull's head cabossed proper., and Jonathon Grantham Per chevron throughout sable and argent, two caltraps and a catapult counterchanged. Since they conflict in the same manner to his badge, it is only fair to the submitter to register this also.

Please instruct the submitter on how to properly draw a gyronny field.

Submitted as Aine Quinlan, this mixes English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have changed the given name to the closest English form.

Submitted as Catherine Aimeri de Wynter, the LoI presented documentation from a previous acceptance of Emma de Winter and Tristana de Winter and said "[t]he interchange of <i> and <y> was very common in Medieval France and Norman England". This is true, but the form de Winter is a Dutch form, not an English or French form. No documentation was presented for such a switch in Dutch. Therefore, we have changed the de Winter to the documented form.

Please inform the submitter that de Winter is a Dutch name, and not French as she believes.

Note: Sabrina is her legal given name.

Found on the LoI as Seán na Mora Dubh, it was originally submitted as Seán na Dubh Mora and changed in kingdom. Hogan in Onomasticon Goedlicum has numerous examples of place name starting with Dubh that are in the reverse word order, so we have restored this to the originally submitted form. However, that means Mora needs to be lenited. We have done so.

Submitted as Snorri of the Northern Watch. the locative is an English translation of the name of the submitter's barony. However, to use the name of an official SCA group, the name must be used exactly as it is registered, or it must be shown to be compatible with period naming practices and the rest of the submitted name. Since this was not done, we have changed the byname to the registered form of his group.

Found on the LoI as Andre de Montségur, the accent on the e in André, was inadvertently left off the LoI. We have restored it.

This was an appeal of the original return of Raffe Scholemystre. Out of courtesy to the client we have changed his holding name to the form he prefers.

Some questions were raised as to whether a cockroach was patently offensive, since a semy of cockroaches were previously returned in the proposed arms for The Canton of the Whyte Wey as being patently offensive, and if cockroaches or insects similar to them were used in period armory. The majority of the commenters and Laurel find no problem with a single cockroach. As for its use in period, in Martin Schrot's Wappenbuch, printed in 1581 (a period German heraldic text) shows the arms of Echlkivice (if we are reading the black letter font correctly) as Field, a beetle bendwise. Therefore we feel that a cockroach is a registerable charge.

Please instruct the submitter in how to draw a proper bordure counter-compony.

Note: she has permission to conflict with Johann Ludwig von Coburg Sable, a chevron rompu Or between three long crosses moline argent.

Note: this is technically clear of the badge for the Ansteorra's Chronicler's office (Tinctureless) A mullet of five greater and five lesser points distilling goutes., since the bend sinister is considered the primary charge this is technically not a field with a mullet variant on it.

Melcón's Apellidos Castellano-Leoneses pg. 103, lists an Oro Sol in 1219, and a Munio de Leon in 1245.

Submitted as Vsévolod Terekhov, according to Escutcheon, the accent in Vsévolod is not appropriate, and we have deleted it.

The armory was submitted under the name Taraneh al Basra.

In the return of Nethaniel Strathearn 8/91, Azure, two chevronels cotised Or, in base a tyger passant argent. Master Da'ud as Laurel wrote:

Since no documentation has been produced for cotising multiple ordinaries, we see no reason to overturn this precedent.

This conflicts with Veniamin Nafanovich Medvednikogotev Sable, three wolf's teeth issuant from dexter argent., as cited on the LoI, with one CD for the difference in the field, but nothing for the curved line in the wolf's teeth. Just as we would give nothing for the enarching of three bars, we give nothing for the enarching of the piles.

This conflicts with William of Sark as cited on the LoI, Sable, a flame proper. There is a CD for the field but William's device has a yellow flame with a red flame inside it, that looks almost exactly like the gules rock.

This is being returned for breaking our rules on "slot machine" with three different charges in the same charge group.

This conflicts with Eleanor Colwell of Glouchester, as cited on the LoI, Per bend gules and azure, a cross-crosslet Or and another argent. There is a CD, but not substantial difference between the two types of crosses.

We no longer register annulets of flames. While it is true that the use of an annulet of flames is grandfathered to the group, what they have registered is a single tinctured annulet, not with two colors as with this.

No documentation was presented and none could be found by the College for of the Broken Wire as a byname. Please inform the submitter that if she wants a name that implies she is a harper, Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames., p. 218, lists a Robert le Harper in 1186, a Reginald le Harper" in 1275, and (under Harp), a Ralf Harpe in 1241.

Anja Metsälainen. Name.

According to Koira, who is a native Finnish speaker, Anja as a Finnish name is post-period. The normal Finnish form of the name is Anna. The byname does not mean of the forest as the LoI claimed. If the submitter wants help in construction a period Finnish name, Master Pietari, former Principal Herald of Drachenwald, and now Koira Herald, who is a native Finn would be glad to assist her. His e-mail address is huu@iki.fi

This is being returned for not providing enough support for the change. The Administrative Handbook says:

It has been ruled by Laurel that the polling in the newsletter is required for changes to consort's arms as well. We received no such certification.

This conflicts with Griffin Freehold and with Griffin Pursuivant, since the only difference is the addition of a group name, which the rules specifically exclude as a differencing descriptive element.

The name is incorrectly constructed in that the accents are going the wrong way and the patronymic needs to be feminized. The correct form of this name would be Caitilín ingheah uí Sheaghdha. However, it conflicts with the already registered Caitlin ni Sheaghdha.

The device conflicts with Gwendolyn Dylwen Llywelyn Per chevron throughout gules and argent, two swans close respectant and a dragon passant counterchanged., and Jonathan Harbour Per chevron gules and argent, two roses slipped and leaved and a tower counterchanged. In both cases there is not substantial difference in all the primary charges.

Additionally the roses were not correctly drawn. They appear closest to the banned rosebud.

While the LoI states that the name was submitted in April 1998, we have no record of this name, and this would have to be returned for lack of a name. Furthermore, this conflicts with Penelope of the Quill, Vert, a chevron between two hawk's bells and a quill pen Or. There is only one CD, for the change to the type of the secondary charges.

This is being returned for lack of petition of support. However, even if there had been a petition we would have had to return this for the laurel wreath counterchanged over the mountain. The only time we permit a charge to be counterchanged over another is when they are both ordinaries.

The LoI glossed the name as meaning fort or castle resurrection. That was incorrect. Dun actually means "a heap" and from there also a hill or mound or a fortress particularly one on a hill. The word Eir means to rise, mount or ascend, thus this name means "to climb the hill". The word for resurrection is Aiseirigh.

However, even if this had been correctly constructed, no documentation was presented, and none could be found by the college, for Gaelic place names having that abstract a name.

Since the name was returned, the device also has to be returned since we do not form holding names for group. However, even if the name had been registered we would have to return the device. The laurel wreath is emblazoned as ‘lying as on a bordure’, which has been disallowed for some time now. Please let them know that laurel wreaths are nearly circular in shape, and cannot follow the line of a bordure or orle.

The armory has two problems, each of which is grounds for return. First, the double tressure flory counter-flory (or just plain flory) is banned from use in the SCA, as it was an augmentation granted by the kings of Scotland. Second the style of making the tressure fleury, with all the fleurs-de-lys palewise is unattested.

This conflicts with Frederick Tinamou the Untamed Azure, a bald eagle’s head and shoulders issuant from base argent holding in its beak a sword inverted bendwise sable., and Ironhawk Hawkcrest Per pale vert and Or, a hawks head erased argent. In both cases there is but one CD for difference in field.

This was withdrawn by submitter. However, even if it hadn't been withdrawn, it would have had to be returned because the name is not registered, we received no paperwork, and it conflicts with Emrys Shaunnon Vert, a chevron cotised between three bees volant en arriere Or. with only a CD for the difference in the secondaries.

This conflicts with the badge of Migel Gneuyle de Normandie Gules, an old man statant affronty maintaining sword and shield Or. There is only one CD for the difference in the fields.

There are several problems with this name. First, it combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. Second, Gaelic does not use middle names, so the use of Mabh is doubly out of place. Third, while Mabh is a female name, Rowan is a male name (it is the standard Anglicization of the Irish name Ruadhan). And, finally no documentation was presented and none could be found for MacTeera as a period name.

This is being returned for a redraw. The swans are not rousant or naiant but something halfway between which blurs the distinction between the two. Therefore, we are returning this so the swans can be clearly drawn as one or the other.

No documentation was presented, and none could be found, for using Drakkar as a place name. Barring such documentation, it cannot be used. Since the submitter allows no changes the name must be returned.

The device conflicts with Lorraine von Eulennest Per saltire vert and purpure, a great horned owl affronty Or. There’s one CD for the field but nothing for the small grasped branch. This also conflicts with the badge of Adelicia of Gilwell (Fieldless) An owl Or. There is a CD for the field, but again nothing for the small held branch. There is no difference between an owl close and an owl affronty by the LoAR of 8/92 p.26.

This combines Welsh and Gaelic in the same name. Since Gaelic wasn't combined with Welsh in period, we must return this name. Even if there wasn't this problem, no documentation was presented for the phrase being an acceptable byname, and barring such documentation the name would have to be returned.

No documentation was presented for the use of Wyvern in a place name, and none was found by the College. Barring such documentation, the name must be returned. Since we do not form holding names for groups, the device must be returned as well.

On the June 1996 LoAR cover letter, Alanna was ruled non-acceptable for SCA usage barring period evidence of its use.

The armory was registered under the holding name Lauren Cleary.

The submitter has appealed the previous return of his submission for using a non-period cross by providing a copy of a picture from Foster's Dictionary of Heraldry which shows a similar cross. However, he was only able to find the cross he wants in one place in Foster's, and Foster's is a 19th century redraw of medieval armory. And, Foster was not copying from medieval originals, but rather from 18th and 19th century editions of Renaissance copies of the medieval originals. Brault's redraw in Aspologia III shows a standard cross. He also provided a copy of a period woodcut, showing a cross similar, but not identical to what he is submitting. Since the cross he is submitting is not the same as what is in the period woodcut, it does not help his case. Since we have used this woodcut for documentation in a different case to register the cross in the woodcut as an unblazoned variant of formy, if he resubmits drawing the cross to look like the one in the woodcut, barring any other problems, it should be acceptable.

The patronymic needed to be put into the genitive form which is Mac Mathghamhna. However, since the submitter would take no changes we are forced to return this.

While this name is technically clear of House of Wolf's Keep, every one who commented on it felt that it was too close, and the two names would be confused. Therefore we are returning this for violating RfS V. "Names may not be too similar to the names of others, as is required by General Principle 3a of these rules. Names need to be distinguished from each other both in their written form and when heard in announcements. "

The name is being returned for being conflicting with the television show Blackadder. Laurel, who does not watch TV, has heard of the series Blackadder. If we protect the names of famous fictional characters in literature and television, we also protect the names of television shows.

The armory conflicts with Robert of Woodsende Or, vetu ployé, a serpent nowed sable. The only difference is the one for fieldlessness.

This is being returned because the sword is divided palewise. A sword is too narrow a charge to be divided per pale.

This conflicts with the Shire of Ravenshore, as cited in the LoI, Per fess argent and azure, a raven rising wings addorsed sable maintaining a scallop Or. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the difference in the maintained charges.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not per chevron inverted. It is closest to per pall argent, Or and Or, which is not acceptable.

This conflict with Ailith ferch Dafydd Azure, a pall between a Celtic cross and two unicorns combattant argent. There is only one CD, for the change to the type of the secondary charges.

This is being returned for a redraw. The bends are not embattled-counter embattled nor brettessed, but something in between. Furthermore the embattlements need to be drawn larger with more space between them. While not in and of itself grounds for return, please show the submitter how to draw erased properly.

The name is being returned for lack of paperwork. We received no forms or petition. Since we do not form holding names for groups, the armory must be returned as well.

Even if the name had been registerable the armory would have had to be returned for lack of petition and because it violates our rule on slot machine by having three different charges in the same group. Furthermore, the laurel wreath needs a redraw, to look more like a laurel wreath, which should be circular in shape.

This is being returned for a redraw. While a rock, which is a period charge, is unidentifiable, as drawn this one was. Putting in some shading or details would help the situation.

This is being returned for breaking the rule of tincture by having the primarily argent sword mostly on an argent gyron. While maintained charges can have low contrast, they must have some contrast.

This conflicts with David Lindsay (aka David Lindsay of the Mount) who was the best known national" Scots poet from the time he flourished (first half 16th c.) to the time of Robert Burns. He was also a long-term courtier of James V, and as Lyon King of Arms, compiled a rather large and historically important Roll of Arms. He has his own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and therefore is important enough to protect.

The byname needs to be lenited to Fhathaigh. Since she will not take any changes, we are forced to return the name.

The name conflicts with Kathryn of Lindsey. Neither the spelling changes nor the change in preposition count for difference.

The armory is being returned for having a complex line of division between sable and purpure. Such a line, even when not obscured, is difficult to identify on low-contrast fields . Furthermore the unicorn needs to be redrawn so the horn and beard, the two most important identifying marks of a unicorn, can be seen.

The conflicts with Jeanette of Briarrose Azure, on a pale between six roses in annulo Or, a white heath tree couped proper. There is a CD for the addition of the tree, but nothing for moving the roses by a small amount. Jeanette's roses are only slightly out of a palewise arrangement around her pale.

While blazoned of the LoI as an open gate, it is virtually identical to a gateway, which was last registered in 11/96. When this was registered we said:

Therefore we are returning this. Furthermore the laurel wreath really isn't a wreath. "A wreath is a circular charge, with its chiefmost ends nearly touching. Two sprigs (straight branches) crossed to form a "V" is not a wreath." (Glossary of Terms, Appendix 1). Please instruct the group on how to properly draw a laurel wreath for when they resubmit.

This was an appeal of a 12/92 return for violating RfS VI.1 "Names Claiming Rank". Because Master is a reserved title in the SCA, the name Scholemaystre was ruled to be presumptuous. The text of the rule reads, "Names containing titles, territorial claims, or allusions to rank are considered presumptuous." In that return Laurel quoted his 10/92 return of Sara Annchen Baumeister, in which he wrote, "we will not register any name that claims to be a "Master [anything]." The submitter argues that Scholemaystre does not represent a such a claim, and presents citations it in various spellings, and a quote from Orme, Education in the West of England 1066-1548, which refers to a William Scolemayster and then says, "Whether he was a practicing schoolmaster at the time, or whether ‘schoolmaster’ was merely a surname unrelated to his work, is hard to say." This is intended to demonstrate that the name Scholemayster does not make a claim to a title. He also writes, "I am in NO way making any claim to being a peer; what I wish to do is use my occupation as my surname . The term Scholmaystre was a specific occupational description during period . "

Laurel sympathies with the submitter, who is trying to use historically a term which the SCA uses ahistorically. However, as was said in the return of the Master Bowman of the East (7/90) "We cannot, in good conscience, register a title reserved by Corpora to peers to any non-peerage group, no matter in what form they propose to use it." The same argument applies to individuals.

And as Master Bruce said as Laurel:

Finally, after the Board polled the entire Society about making all bestowed peers knights of their order (knights of the laurel, the pelican and the chivalry), it was decided not to do so. As long as the Board has decided Master is a reserved title, Laurel cannot change that.

His holding name has been changed from James of Eoforwic to Raffe of Ardcreag as he requested.

This exact same name and device was registered at the October 1998 Laurel meeting.

This submission has two problems. First is lack of contrast. The combination of argent feather overlying the Or saltire and the sable tip on the azure field makes considerably more than half of the outline of the feather have poor contrast. Second "tipped sable" does not unambiguously describe the coloration of the feather. There is no way to accurately blazon the feather coloring.

The submitter wished to use the Hebrew v rather than the English of. There are two problems with this. First, according to RfS III.1.a each name phrase must be entire in the same language or in a language with an English connective such as of or the. Unless Amberview can be documented as Hebrew, it cannot be combined with Hebrew. Second, no documentation was presented for v being Hebrew for of.

This conflicts with Bavaria Lozengy bendwise argent and azure., Monaco Lozengy argent and gules., and the Dukes of Teck Lozengy bendwise (or bendwise sinister) sable and Or. The counterchanging does not make any difference to what sort of field it is in this case. We give no CD for partition between any of the lozengy or paly-bendy variants, only between them and checky; thus the only CD is for tincture of half the field.

Even if there had been no conflict this would have been returned for violating RfS VIII.3 for excessive counterchanging, and for violating RfS VIII.4 on op-art.

This conflicts with Friedrich von Rabenstein Argent, a sun, in chief a sword fesswise sable. There is on CD for number of swords, but since the sword in chief in Ian's badge is fesswise, there is nothing for arrangement.

Furthermore, the LoI argued that this design is grandfathered to the submitter since his registered arms are Argent, a sun between a fret of four swords sable. However, these submissions do not use the same motif, and his arms do not conflict with Friedrich since the none of the swords in his arms are fesswise in chief.

Note: we give no difference between fesswise and fesswise reversed for swords when they are interlaced in annulo just as we don't consider what direction legs are going when they are in triquetra.

This conflicts with Henry of Coldharbour Argent, a cross of Coldharbour gules. A cross of Coldharbour is an SCA invention considered to be identical to a Celtic cross throughout. Therefore, there is only one CD for the field.

This is being returned for a redraw. The cross is not a Celtic cross formy, or any other type of heraldic cross.

No documentation was provided for the household name, and none was provided by the College. Barring such documentation, the household name must be returned. Period models for household names include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart).

Even if documentation had been provided, the name is grammatically incorrect. des is a contraction of de les so the extra article is superfluous. House [of the] Flowers would be Château des Fleurs.

No name forms were received for the name change.

This is being returned for lack of documentation on the name. While it is correct Welsh for Cold or Icy Seas, no documentation was presented for that being a plausible period name. Barring such documentation the name must be returned.

Since we do not form holding names for groups, the armory must be returned as well.

The only documentation for the given name came from a web site of Iranian names with no dates given. Schimmel's book on Arabic names gives a similar name, implying it is modern. Without documentation for period usage, this must be returned. Note: the correct feminine form of the byname would be al-Basriya(h).

The armory was registered under the holding name Kathleen of Wuduholt be Secg.

This is being pended so we can decide if the arms of Carmichell of that ilk Argent, a fess wreathed azure and gules., found in The Roll of Arms of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, 1542, pl. 116, are important enough to protect. These arms are still in use by the Carmichael of that Ilk, having been confirmed by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the 1980s.

This is being pended so the college can discuss whether we want to overturn the ban by Master Baldwin of Erebor, as Laurel, on allowing baron/ess to use coronets in their armory. See the cover letter for further details.

The LoI left out the tincture of the acorns.