Celtic Cross Donnelly
[The majority of this letter was typed in all capital letters, switching to mixed case on the last page. Capitalization has been standardized below for greater legibility. Some spelling corrections have been made for clarity, marked by square brackets.]
July 31 1974
The following arms, devices, and badges are herewith registered with the College of Arms of the S.C.A. Inc.
From Al Baron:
* The Shire of al Baron: Sable, a chevron argent, overall a scorpion and in base a laurel wreath, both Or.
* Lord Starkad Maledon: Argent, a Chinese dragon vert, membered purpure, combed azure, ballied and winged gules, head affront[r]ee, ent[w]ined about and vorant the point of a straight malabar (dyak sword) Or, fimbriated sable, hilted azure.
From the Principality of Atenveldt:
* Barbara of Kennleworth: Quarterly gules and vairee Or and gules, a cross lozengy throughout Or, in the first quarter a stag courant above an oak leaf fesswise, also Or. (-5)
* Bjarny de Eorlingas: Vert, in saltire a quillionless sword and a single-bitted axe, both argent, debruised at the cross by an annulet Or.
* Brenn of Armach (Resubmi[ss]ion): Per saltire sable and azure, within an annulet Or a mullet of four points argent, ridged sable.
* Deaton Claymore (Kelly): Vert, two swords in saltire, surmounted by a third inverted and palewise, all proper. (+10bp)
* Lorsley of Lockhaven (Alteration): Per pale azure and Or, a candle argent, sconced sable, enflamed proper, fimbríated counter-changed.
* Marek of Stonebarr: Gules, a bend sinister argent, masoned in fess sable, in chief a mullet argent.
* Sequora of Zagamar (Alteration): Gyronny ermine and Or, an estoile gules. (Sable in original sub.)
From the Barony of Caerthe:
* Charles de Baskerville: Bendy gules and Or, an alaunt's head sinister erased sable, orbed gules.
* Margaret of Griffintower (note here: this is new and will take the place of her original beauty which shall henceforth drop to the status of personal badge) Argent, guttee d'sang, a griffin's head erased sable, armed and orbed gules; a border sable.
* Morgan of Landour: Purpure, a pale dancetty of two points argent, voided sable. (+25)
From Draconia:
* Dain the Ranger: Vert, a tear-drop argent and a chain in fess, sundered, Or.
* Jack Nimble: Quarterly Or and vert, a sun in splendor counter-changed.
* Peirdion Starling: Argent, a lozenge inverted gules bearing nine roundeles Or, charged each with a martlet displayed and dismembered at the neck gules, a bordoure engrailed sable.
From the Barony of the South Downs:
* Eric of Telemark: Gyronny of six, gules and azure, a reremouse displayed within an annulet enflamed, both Or.
* Griffin Val Drummund: Per pale purpure and azure, a griffin segreant argent, bearing in its dexter talon a morgenstern, and in its sinister one a targe charged with a tower azure.
Fron the Steppes: nothing submitted.
From Wyverwood:
* Alrick von Beaker: Or, a panther passant in bend azure, inscenced gules.
* Margeret di san Gemignano: Per bend argent and azure, a conical tower erminois.
From Tir Ysgither:
* Arwyn of the Gilded Helm: Per fess azure, a tree couped argent; argent a griffin sergeant regard[an]t azure; a fess sable charged with two mullets of four points argent.
* Mary Margeret of Derby: Azure, a domestick cat[] counter passant Or.
* Mary Margeret of Derby: (badge): sable, above a base barry wavy Or and sable, a lanthorne Or.
* Morgaina la Foncee (Badge): Per saltire vert and azure, a fret throughout Or.
* Pamela of the Gardens: Argent, upon a bend vert a stalk of wheat Or, all between two roses gules, barbed and seeded proper.
* Stewart the Stalward: Azure, upon a bend cotised Or three keys palewise, wards in chief, azure.
* Walter of the Watch: Azure, upon a fess cot[i]sed Or a tilting spear, point to sinister, vert.
* The "Free City" of Mermannstadt: Argent, a mermaid proper, tailed & crined Or holding a sword fesswise, hilt to dexter, proper; and in sinister canton a heart gules within a Laurel wreath vert; overall a bordurelet Or. [Handwritten]
* Office of the Chronicler: Or, a tyger passant azure maintaining a quill argent.
From the Barony of Mirkwood:
* Earl Angus the Black (Badge for Clan Creacainn): Or, a seabull sejant sable.
From the Barony of Carolingia
* Order of the Golden Key: Vert, a key palewise inverted and reversed Or.
* Baron sir Patri du Chat Gris (Badge): Sable, a domestic cat counter-sejant within a border argent.
* Lorimel the Gentle (Badge): Azure, an otter sejant erect Or.
* Jared of Samcerre, the Tower: Gules, a chevron sable fim[]b[]riated argent between three salamanders proper.
From the Province of Østgrdr:
* Kozima la Pellagrina (House of Ness): Sable, a goat counter-clymant Or. (+10bp)
* Rebecca de Ravenstein: Vert, a [r]ebec in bend sinister peghea[d]s in chief crossed by a bow fesswise Or.
* Brekke Franksdottir (House of the Wolf): Sable, a cooking pot hanging from a tripod above a fire in base argent.
From the Barony of Bhakail:
* The Baron of Bhakail: Gules, a salamander sable dancing in the flames environed of a laurel wreath proper; on a chief argent, a hurst of three trees, maple, pine and oak proper, between two quills that in sinister inverted, gules.
* Master of Horse (Badge): Argent, a nag's head erased vert, bridled Or; on a latch argent, fimbriated sable, a salamander t[e]rgiant of the last.
* Gregory v. Lucida, Baron: Azure, a bear counter-salient regardant Or, muzzled sable iss[u]ant from a tower in base base argent; on a chief Or a salamander t[e]rgiant sable.
* Kathryn Fitzroy of Bath, Seneschale (Hall of the Unicorns): Vert, upon a rock a harbor seal (phoca vitulina) counter-couchant regardant proper, gorged with a chain, pendant therefrom a key reversed sable; upon an atrolclase-granite rock proper; in chief three bezants mal-ordonne.
* Nachum Avram bn. Benjamin bn. Meir, Royal Executioner: Azure, a brock (meles meles) passant proper, incensed.
* Marjorie of Ruthiemurches: Azure, a chocolate- point siamese cat sejant ere[c]t proper upon a pine bough leaved and fructed fesswise in base proper; in dexter chief, an estoile argent.
* Rohlfe Ravenson： Argent, a r[a]ven surgerant sable perching upon a dexter hand in pale, couped at the wrist, proper, ga[u]ntleted azure.
From the Western March (Debatable Lands):
* The Lesser Farms of the March of the Debatable Lands: Sable, a comet argent and in base a laurel wreath Or, a border embattled of the last.
* Nicholos of the Hill Folk, Maste[r] of Ceremonies: Vert, on a pile argent, a dragon rampant gules.
From the Domain of Myrkfelinn:
* Njorbjørn Jørgesson, Hersir of Myrkfelinn (House of the Silver Bear): Azure, on a saltire argent, a stone throwing-hamme[]r sable, crossed and thronged Or, hafted fim[]briated argent.
Note: "Nevsky" is a title and may not be used!!!
From the Pr[o]vince of Østgardr:
* Benjamis Francis of Rescoge (House Dsrov): Or, a dragon counter-volant inverted vert bellied azure impaled by a goose quill proper.
From the Barony of Mirkwood:
* H. M. Alyson [o]f Islay: Per bend Or and vert, a koala rampant gardant maintaining a branch eucalyptus proper.
* Rorik Harcourt of the Axe: Sable, a bend sinister ermine between t[w]o wolf's heads cabossed argent.
From The Barony of Carolingia:
* Liosliath of Donnelly: Purpure, a Donnelly knot Or. (+25) [Original typescript hand-corrected from "Celtic Cross Donnelly"" to "Donnelly knot.""]
* Bartolomeo Dela Rocca: Gules three arrows, two in saltire debruised by one in pale, enwrapped at point of junture by a serpent contre-gardant, all Or. [Handwritten: Problem]
From the Barony of Bhakail[:]
* Geoffrey of Ayr-Montalban (Hall of the Unicorns): Vert, a pall inverted nebuly between two crosses of Cleves Or and and a sword proper.
From the Western March (Debatable Lands):
* Volf of Novgorod, the Ignitor (Forteresse des Quartre Chiases), Knight-Marshal: Gules, a bend sable ermined Or between a wolf's head erased and a battleaxe argent.
* Rosamir du Vale d'Amour (Maison du Tor-Fraisse): Per fess, Or, three roses gules barbed and seeded proper, and gules three a[nn]ulets interlaced Or.
From the Shire of Thescorre:
* Alric Bowbreaker of the High March, Acting Seneschal: Sable, two arrows in saltire, in chief a crescent inverted, engrailed in chief, raguly in base, and in base a like crescent, all argent.
* Armida Morgan: Azure, the head of a hind erased argent.
* Zoltan Pokany Evo of Pescht: Azure, on a fess Or a balance sable, in chief three mullets argent.
* Yang the Nauseating: Sable, a snake coiled to strike void[ed] Or.
* Jamie Foxx: Azure on a pentagon argent a red fox's head langued affrontée proper. ("Margraf" is [a] title not used in S.C.A. Please advise Jamie.)
* Ozymandias the Superfluous: Azure, a statue of a boot erased below the knee argent, masoned sable, resting on a bar and in chief a la[b]el of 3 point[s] both argent.
* Gwynnethdene of the Shadowed Mooseland: Per chevron re[v]ersed enhanced argent and sable, in chief a trident gules, in base moose's head caboshed of the first.
* Geoffrey Genor of Carney: Per pale, gules and argent, a bend bevilled sinister, counter-changed between a sword in pale surmounted by two swords in saltire, all points downward Or, and a chess rook purpure.
* Knud Kaukinen: Sable, three gemmel rings purpure, vert, and gules all fimbriated Or.
* Aldric of Northmark: Per fess engrailed, gules and azure, the setting sun in her glory Or, in dexter chief an estoille of eight rays argent, overall a sword hilt bend proper in chief. (-5)
* Anne of Kingsford: Azure a unicorn passant argent and on a chief argent, three lilac trees one and two proper.
* Legion of the Blackfist: Pean, a roundel Or, thereon a sinister hand grasping a dagger all sable.
* Adayand Aniantai: Vert, a bezant eclipsed by a decrescent vert voided Or.
* Astalla: Sable[,] a septoile [estoile of 7] in dexter argent issuant therefrom to sinister chief five bendlets gules, Or, vert, and purpure.
* Rhiannon Gan Bladau: Sable on a cartouche indented charged with a cartouche sable a daisy slipped and leaved, proper.
* Kercrescoll Stuart Donnchadh: Per pale argent a patriachial cross fluery gules; and gules a unicorn rampant argent.
* Yosef Alaric of the Baliset: Azure, in bend a trumpet Or, in bend sinister a lute, edge on, proper.
* Katrine de Chateau des Chats: Azure, a domestic cat se[j]ant on a base embattled all argent.
* Arlin: Azure, a pegasus courant affronte with wings displayed environed of seven estoiles representing the constellation Orion all argent.
* Cordelia the Silent: Or, a delf vert voided Or at each corner a quatrefoil, overall a cross alchee all vert.
* Corinna of the Silver Scissors: Azure, six scissors gyronny argent.
* Meridoc Grimalkin: Per pale sable and argent[,] a grey alley cat counter rampant proper.
* Grynaeth Math O Ddylluan: Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable.
* Miranda of Silvandel: Qua[r]terly vert and ermine[,] in bend a decrescent, a mullet and an increscent all argent.
* Catta of the Tyrfield: Per fess, potenty gules and Or, and azure a leopard's head cabossed Or.
* Kerrinda of Kymry: Azure, a fawn's head erased, an[d] a gyron issuing from the dexter side in chief Or.
* Paulette of Poitiers: Azure, between three swans a bridge doublearched all argent.
* Selena of Dragon's Bay: Vert, a dapple grey unicorn st[at]ant.
* Wilheim Serrpinge: Argent, between a pair of gauntlets sable, a Catherine wheel gules surmounted by a pole axe sable.
* Gwendolyn of Caer Cerddinen: Argent, a rowan tree eradicated fructed proper, within a bordur[e] embattled vert.
* Elriin of Hrassvelg (Badge): Per pale gules and azure, the forequarter[s] of a Hrassvelg monster affrontée argent.
* Eric of the Broken Cross: Gules, a cross swallowtailed azure fimbriated Or.
* Shasta Pro[vi]ncial Mercenaries (Gobbler Company) (Badge): A turkey's head erased gules, beaked Or, wearing a horned Viking's helmet Or.
* Alicia de Landelle: Vert crusily argent, a sun thru-out Or.
* Robert of West March: Sable, a lion rampant vert, fimbriated argent.
* Canton of Novomarc: Per chevron, azure two laurel wreaths Or, and argent a sun gules.
* Order of the Silver Molet: Argent, on a pile gules, a Western Crown argent. [Handwritten: Error. Original typescript had "molet," now struck out and replaced by "western crown."]
* Tamara Iz Kiev (Reblazon): Argent, three birch leaves vert.
* Judith Bat Avram of York: Quarterly azure and purpure, in the second quarter a shield of David argent and Or.
The following Arms, devices and/or names are herewith rejected by the College of Arms of the SCA, for reasons given:
* Julie of Blackwater: (badge) held pending further research.
* Beltran of the Mont: please remove the inescutcheon of pretense.
* Richard of Alsace: too close to Atenveldt, the town of Dingwall (in Scotland), and the SCA lady Wendryn.
* Swami F.F.T.E.: "Swami" is not, to Our knowledge, a proper name. Please try to take a name more in keeping with the purposes of the SCA Inc.
* Azarael the Soul Separator: I doubt very much that the Islamic Angel of Death has joined the Society. Change it!
* March of the Cleftlands: We must be able to see an emblazon to be able to pass on it. Please submit a more clear emblazon.
* Turren de Lisle: too close to Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels.
* Heralds Melee Team of the Middle Kingdom: this device is copyrighted. Remind the CoA to crucify you someday....grunge.
: Profuse apol[o]gies for the lateness of this batch of devices. Due to work pressures and home problems, not much time has been devoted to the Society of late. This should be changing within a couple of months... thank you all for your varying degrees of patience.
PLEASE send me letters of comment on other heralds device submissions! Without those, I must go up to ASU's Library and research myself.... thus adding delay.
/s Locksley
Laurel