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Alanna Goodheart. Name.

Aleksandra of the Cheremiss. Name.

If the submitter would prefer a fully Russian byname, she might consider Cheremisinova or Cheremisina.

Eric Ward of Winchester. Badge. (fieldless) A pheon inverted per pale Or and argent.

Possible conflict was cited against the English Royal badge, (tinctureless) A broadarrow. Lord Lion's Blood has noted instances of the badge's use (e.g. the seal of the Royal Butlery, c.1330) where the broadarrow is inverted, and suggests that this is its defined orientation. Other (post-period) uses of the broadarrow show the charge in a variety of orientations: e.g., the clothing used by British prisoners until 1920 was marked with broadarrows -- essentially semy -- in random orientations. However, while the badge might be rotated in use, its default posture would be that of the charge itself, which would be point to base in English usage. (A close examination of the illustration of the Royal Butlery seal [Coat of Arms, July 56, p.93] suggests that it was printed upside down: the Latin inscription around the seal, which starts at its bottom, is depicted at the tope of the drawing.) Pending more definitive evidence, we will assume that the badge uses the charge in its default posture. Against this submission, we thus count a CD for fieldlessness (tincturelessness), and a CD for posture.

Marguerite of Kenneydell. Name and device. Azure, on a bend between two daisies argent, two daisies azure.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the daisies on the bend closer together.

Thalassia de Rijkaard. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Watt Kidman. Name.

ATENVELDT

Aella Constanze Wulfwärter. Device. Gules semy of grenades Or flamed proper, a wolf rampant contourny argent.

Alane O'Maoilriain. Badge. Per chevron vert and argent, two lyres argent and a pair of hosen gules.

Alienor la Souris de Royan. Device. Argent, on a chevron embattled counter-embattled between three roundels azure, two mice couchant respectant argent.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the embattlements correctly. It will help if the submitter starts at the center and works to the edge of the shield.

One of the legitimate uses of a fieldless badge is as a pin or jewel (such as the Dunstable Jewel, a depiction of the White Swan of Bohun c.1400). For a design using a [charge] within and conjoined to an annulet, to make such a pin would require a very slight overlap on the inner edge of the ring. So long as that overlap is small enough to be worth no heraldic notice -- neither mention in the blazon, nor points of difference -- we can accept such emblazons while registering the heraldically correct blazon (with a note to the submitter). That's the case here: please instruct the submitter to draw her galleon abutting the inner edge of the ring, and reserve any slight overlap for precious metalwork.

Camille of Brymstone College. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Per bend sinister azure and purpure, on a plate a cat's face sable.

This was submitted under the name Dolores Isabella Cisneros de los Gitanos.

Carthann Mac Luinge of Inishmore. Device. Vert, a dolphin within a bordure Or charged with shamrocks vert.

Cyrus of Alexandretta. Name.

David of Côte du Ciel. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Per chevron throughout argent and vert, two ravens respectant sable and a reindeer's head erased argent, collared sable and chained Or.

This was submitted under the name Kian Hrafn af Durness.

Dietrich Kurneck von Hammerstein. Name and badge. (fieldless) A sinister mailed fist aversant sable grasping stalks of grain Or.

The name was submitted with the preposition capitalized (Von). The usual spelling in this case would put the preposition in lower case (von); we've done so here as well.
This is clear of such armories as Lacocke (Papworth 902): Argent, a gauntlet sable. The stalks of wheat are conceded to be worth no difference; neither is the distinction between dexter and sinister gauntlets, or for aversant vs. not aversant. However, I have to agree that the change from the default apaumy posture (i.e. with the fingers spread) to the clenched posture is worth a CD in this case. That, with the CD for fieldlessness, brings it clear.
Against the badge of the US 41st Bombardment Squadron (Argent, a dexter fist palewise sable brandishing a bolt of lightning gules), a check of the Military Ordinary showed the badge to have been misblazoned in the commentary. The correct blazon (MilOrd #717) is Argent, a dexter fist palewise sable brandishing a bolt of lightning gules which issues in four barbs to the dexter, overall a bordure azure. There's a CD for the bordure, as well as a CD for fieldlessness.

Etain Eame. Device. Or, a maunch azure, on a chief sable two cubit arms fesswise, hands clasped argent.

Gwendolyn MacAuslane of Loch Lomond. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was submitted as mac Auslane on the LOI. The forms, however, used the upper-case and coalesced MacAuslane. Since the latter is also more readily interpretable as an anglicized surname, rather than a masculine patronymic, we've restored the submitter's spelling.
While there is some association between Loch Lomond and the Clan McCasland (MacAuslane), the Loch is technically the possession of the Clan Buchanan. We might have had some problem with Buchanan of Loch Lomond, but the current submission is too far removed to be considered presumptuous.

The middle name was submitted as Benjamino; as Italian doesn't use the letter J, we corrected the name. Like Lady Ensign, we find this mix of three languages to be tooth-jarring but registerable; Rule III.2 does seem to sanction this construction.

Ilario de Vienne. Name.

James Hawke. Name.

Julienne Dubarry. Name and device. Vert, a phoenix within an orle Or.

The byname was submitted as DuBarry. No support was offered for the coalesced form with the capital B in the middle; we've changed the name to a documented form.
Conflict was cited against the badge of HMCS St. John (Canadian Ordinary #795): Vert, a partridge Or rising out of fire in base proper. There's a single CD, for adding the orle; this would be a conflict if the badge of the St. John were on our list of protected armory. However, the Canadian Ordinary (somtimes called the "Great White Ordinary") has not been added to Appendix E, and is therefore not protected -- nor has there been a great cry from the College to have it added.

This was submitted under the name Numira al-Nasifa Bint Abdullah min Dimashq.

Lorin MacKai. Device. Per pale azure and purpure, a chief checky argent and sable.

Luke Thorn. Name.

Mairi Broder. Badge. (fieldless) A pair of shears Or.

Nice badge.

The name does not conflict with the English mystic Margery Kempe (d.1440); the change in final consonants is (ahem) pronounced.

Monique Anne Defourneaux de Lyon. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Myghchaell Loughlin. Name and device. Gules, a horse rampant per bend sinister sable and argent, on a chief argent three quatrefoils barbed gules.

The surname was submitted as Loughleen, intended as a variant spelling of Loughlin. That name derives from the Irish Lochlainn; no plausible anglicization would change the final "-ann, -unn" sound into "-een". With no evidence to support the variant, we've substituted a documented form.
The charges on the chief were blazoned on the LOI as roses. The heraldic rose is typically drawn with five petals; there are a few examples with six, but we know of no instances using only four. We've reblazoned these as quatrefoils; if the submitter wants roses, he will need to resubmit this with a correctly drawn emblazon (with the flowers, perhaps, looking less like cushions).

The surname was submitted as Liathtor, intended to be Irish for "Greytower". Similar Irish toponymics seem to aspirate the second element; we've done so here as well. If he would prefer an anglicized form, of Leightor would be reasonable; if he wishes to be "of the grey tower" (rather than of a place called Greytower), the correct Irish would be an Tuir Liaith.

We've added the accent to the given name, to match the documentation.

Rowan O Curry. Name and device. Azure, two knots of four loops and four tassels Or and a cluster of rowan flowers argent, slipped and leaved vert.

Possible conflict was cited against the arms of Cotton (Papworth 960): Azure, three cotton hanks Or. After looking at the examples of cotton hanks in Parker and Elvin, I've decided there is a CD between them and Rowan's knots of four loops and four tassels: even assuming the hanks were drawn with their loops slightly separate, Rowan's knots could be considered equivalent to "demi-hanks". There's thus a CD for the type of charges in chief, and a CD for the tincture of the charge in base.

Sylvanus of Sutherland. Name.

Terwyn of Glen Laxsey. Badge. (fieldless) Six pheons in annulo, points to center and conjoined at the edges, alternating sable and argent.

The full-sized emblazon was slightly rotated from the miniature emblazon in the LOI. When the badge form was lightly colored (so the argent pheons weren't judged against white paper), the design became sufficiently recognizable to be registered.

The toponymic was submitted as Landshelm, justified in the LOI as a combination of the surnames Land + Helm. Several commenters noted the implausibility of such a construction; placenames, and indeed most bynames, were not formed from randomly conjoined surnames. (The hypothetical Shire of Smithjones was noted as an illustration of the implausibility.) Fortunately, the name can still be justified: helm can refer to either the summit of a hill or a cattle shelter, and Land- is found in such constructions as Landbeach, Landwade, Landford. Such constructions, however, would omit the S between Land- and -helm; we've therefore done so here as well.

The bynames were submitted on the LOI as Escaria la Indomabile. The former appears to be a misreading of the source: the name as cited (and as spelled on the submission forms) is Eucaria. De Felice cites the Italian masculine given name Eucherio; Eucario is a Spanish equivalent. Since the LOI's spelling must be corrected in any case, we've substituted the feminization of the Italian form.
Examples from Langenscheidt's Italian-English Dictionary suggest that la should be elided before a vowel (l'idèa, l'Inghilterra); we've done so here.

The primary charge was blazoned as a hawk's head on the LOI. However, since the full emblazon showed the head to have ears, we've reblazoned it as a griffin's head. If this is not the submitter's intent, he'll need to resubmit with an unambiguously drawn head.

Aodhán Doilfín. Household badge. (fieldless) A sea-horse gules.

This splendid badge is to be associated with the designation Grúdlann Cois Cuain, registered Oct 92.

Arnbiørn Bassi Dansson. Name.

Arnbiørn Bassi Dansson. Household name for Clan Rowanwood.

Beornheard of Wearmouth. Badge. (fieldless) A triquetra Or.

In the case of Seamus O'Donohue (LoAR of Dec 89), the inversion of a triquetra was explicitly ruled to be worth a CD. This is therefore clear of the badge of Halldor Skaptason (SCA), (fieldless) A triquetra inverted Or, with a CD for fieldlessness and a CD for posture. (Posture might not be worth a CD for other knots: they might be too complex to permit inversion to be readily identified, or they might have been used in either posture in period. With an explicit ruling for the triquetra, however, the above point count holds.)

Celynnen of Dyfed. Name.

Cormac MacGregor. Name.

Damian Crakebone. Name and device. Sable, a reremouse between three crosses formy fitchy argent.

Please instruct the submitter to draw all of the charges larger.

Fionnaghal Levenax. Name and device. Azure, a cauldron and a bordure embattled Or.

The byname was spelled Levanax on the LOI. However, the submission forms (and the documentation from Black, under Lennox) give the spelling as we've registered it.
The device is clear of Marcellina nave Staats (SCA): Azure, a cauldron between two stalks of wheat in pile embowed Or. Marcellina's stalks are indeed separate charges, not a wreath; there are CDs for type and number of secondaries.

Wyverns are statant (or sejant; for wyverns, the postures are the same) by default. See the examples in Parker, pp.122-123, and Franklyn & Tanner 354.

Possible conflict was cited against the device of Maelgwyn Dda (SCA): Vert, a wolf's head erased within a bordure rayonny Or. There's a CD for the bordure; the question was raised on any difference between a wolf's head and a tyger's head. Rule X.4.e specifically grants a difference between a lion and a [heraldic] tyger; but even assuming the same between a wolf and a tyger, that doesn't necessarily require difference between their heads. (By analogy, we grant difference between a dragon and an eagle -- but none between a dragon's foot and an eagle's foot. ) The heraldic tyger is described as "having ... the maned neck of a horse, and the head of a wolf, but the upper jaw develops into a frontal horn" (Franklyn & Tanner 334); there's no way that the heads could be deemed Substantially Different, but I can see granting a CD for the frontal horn and the mane.
The submitter's previous device (Vert, a tyger's head erased sable, fimbriated Or) is hereby released, with gratitude.

Philip Bell. Name.

Róisín of Rowanwood. Name.

The given name was submitted as Roísín, with an accent on each I. We've moved the first accent to match the documented spelling.

Ulick von Rauschenberg. Name.

The given name can be considered an anglicized form of the German Ulich, 1381. You might see if the submitter would consider using the fully German form, however.

William of Lochmere. Name and device. Chevronelly argent and azure, a lion rampant to sinister and a bordure Or.

CAID

Angharad Chy a tyr Sterrenow. Release of badge. Argent, a rose between three mullets of four points, one and two, within a bordure embattled azure.

Arielle de Champeyneys. Device. Per bend sinister rayonny purpure ermined argent, and argent ermined purpure, two winged lions segreant counterchanged argent and purpure.

Arthen ap Rhys. Name.

Cara Michelle DuValier. Device. Sable, four fleurs-de-lys in cross, bases to center, within an orle Or.

The previous return (LoAR of Sept 91) determined that there was not Sufficient Difference between this arrangement of fleurs-de-lys and a cross flory. Had it been intended that the difference be negligible, however, I suspect the then-Laurel would have come out and said so. I believe there is a CD for type of primary charge group in this case. That, with the CD for the orle, brings this clear of the arms of Averthorp (Sable, a cross flory Or).

His previous device (Argent, a tree couped and on a chief dovetailed azure, three keys fesswise argent) is released.

The byname was submitted as Ornsdótter, which did not appear to be correct Old Norse: the patronymic suffix is -dóttir, which usually is joined to the genitive of the father's given name. We've amended the grammar accordingly.

Katrelya Rose nic Angus. Name change (from Katerina Fidelia Spencer).

Katrelya is the submitter's mundane given name. The byname was originally submitted as nic Angus, but the patronymic particle was deleted by the Caidan College for lack of available evidence. However, there are period examples of nic (in various spellings) used in anglicized Scots patronymics: e.g. Jannet Nyk Kerkyll, 1561 (Black 476). We have therefore restored the particle to the name.

The Russian firebird is a creature of Eastern European folklore, represented in art from the late 16th and early 17th Centuries. Heraldically, it is indistinguishable from a peacock.

Nice badge! Please have her draw it with a few more ermine spots henceforth.

Aedan MacCormac. Device. Purpure, a sinister hand fesswise aversant proper sustaining a chalice Or within a bordure argent.

Aoífe ní Aodhagáin. Device. Chevronelly azure and argent, a serpent glissant palewise gules holding in its mouth an apple slipped and leaved vert.

It has been ruled acceptable (Thora of Thescorre, LoAR of Aug 92) to have a single armorial allusion to a deity name that's also a documented period given name. It's reasonable to extend the policy, in this case, to the Biblical name Eve (often used as an anglicization of Aoífe). The allusion here is mild, and acceptable.

Avelina Perceval. Device. Per chevron vert and Or, in base a smith's hammer sable hafted of wood proper.

Carolingia, Barony of. Badge for the Order of Perseus. Azure, a pall wavy Or between six mullets of eight points argent.

Cathleen of Greystones. Device. Argent masoned sable, a snail and on a chief embattled vert, an arrow argent.

Chrétien de Mont Blanc. Device. Per fess indented gules and argent, three swords inverted counterchanged Or and gules.

Good bold indenting! Let all heraldic artists take note......

This was an appeal of a return by the Eastern College for stylistic problems: the combination of barely-conjoined charges, one of a color and one of a metal (thus insuring poor contrast on any background), and the voiding and interlacing of the mullet, convinced the Eastern College that the design was unacceptable. I certainly agree that it's poor style; however, it does not seem to be poor enough for return. Mullets of six or more points may be voided and interlaced (the Star of David, for instance, is perfectly acceptable); we would accept a hypothetical mullet within and conjoined to an annulet, and indeed would insist on the conjoining; and the use of a color charge with a metal charge, while potentially lacking contrast, has not been grounds for return under the current Rules.

Donall Gallivin. Device. Sable, two sea-lions passant addorsed Or and argent, tails curved over their heads and braced.

Duncan Andrew Hughes. Device. Azure, a thistle and on a chief argent three roses proper.

Faoiltiarna ní Dhobhailein. Device. Vert, a winged wolf passant ermine within a bordure rayonny argent.

Francesco Greco. Device. Azure, a Latin cross flory and on a chief Or, three compass stars gules.

Geoffrey MacDonald. Name.

[I confess being unsure as to exactly what name was intended here. The submission forms originally gave the byname as Mac Dhomhuill; this was crossed out, presumably by an Eastern herald, and MacDonnell written in; and the LOI gave the byname as MacDonald. They're all equally acceptable, so far as I can tell; nothing in the submission explains the changes. I've registered the name as given in the LOI, since that was the form all the commenters saw; but you might contact the submitter, and find out exactly what he intended.]

Giles William Trout. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, two pairs of daggers in saltire counterchanged.

Gislain Provencher. Device. Bendy sinister vert and Or, in pale two frogs sejant azure.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the frogs larger henceforth.

Haakon Trygvason. Device. Or, a raven displayed and on a chief embattled sable, three Thor's hammers Or.

Jaffré Hébert. Device. Or, a phoenix sable rising from flames gules, on a chief sable three crescents argent.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the phoenix larger.

The phrase cross of Cleves is synonymous with "Latin cross flory". We will accept whichever blazon is submitted.

Justin du Coeur. Device. Per fess indented Or and sable, in chief two hearts gules.

Katerina la Bisbetica. Device. Argent, in pale a Catherine wheel gules and a rose bush vert flowered gules, a bordure sable.

Lalage la Peregrina. Device. Purpure, a falcon argent and a chief ermine.

Leofleda MacAree. Device. Argent, a chevron embattled vert between three garden roses azure, slipped and leaved vert.

Linette de Gallardon. Device. Per saltire purpure and Or, an orle counterchanged.

Please advise the submitter to draw the orle narrower.

Muirdeach of Carrigart. Badge. (fieldless) A Latin cross nowy pierced erminois.

This could, I suppose, also be blazoned a long Coptic cross, following the definition of "Coptic cross" in the device of Stephen of Bellamy. The submitted blazon is preferable, I suspect.

Rhiannon Llysieuwraig. Device. Argent, a cat sejant, dexter paw raised sable, on a chief embattled vert two crescents argent.

Rian MacFinn. Device. Per fess argent and sable, two fireballs proper and two towers, between them a pair of swinging doors, argent.

The charge in base was blazoned as a gateway on the LOI. The gateway is a Society invention, defined the arms of the Shire of Stormgate. As such, it does not appear to follow the medieval exemplars of gates. We will blazon the charge by parts for this submission, but do not intend to accept it in the future.

Rom ben Yosef del Castillo del Toro Negro. Device. Gyronny argent and azure, a bull rampant within a bordure embattled sable charged with stars of David argent.

Sciath Caoiltiarn. Device. Vert, three pheons within a bordure engrailed Or.

Seamus O'Connell of Donegal. Device. Counter-ermine, a quill pen bendwise sinister within a double tressure Or.

Seamus O'Connell of Donegal. Badge. Vert, a quill pen bendwise sinister within a double tressure Or.

Seamus the Shameless Ó Connachtaigh. Device. Per pale vert and Or, a Latin cross nowy pierced counterchanged, on a chief sable three harps Or.

Tanaka Raiko. Badge. Sable, three grasshoppers passant in pall, heads to center argent.

Tanna-Kormákr Makansson. Device. Per fess sable and argent, four wolf's teeth issuant from sinister counterchanged.

Simple, allusive armory.

Trygge fråm Holmgård. Device. Per bend sable and argent, a drakkar counterchanged within a bordure rayonny gules.

Ygraine of Kellswood. Device. Per chevron argent and vert, a chevron raguly on its upper edge between two mullets and a garb counterchanged.

Ygraine of the Seven Oaks. Device. Per saltire vert and sable, an oak tree eradicated within a bordure argent.

MERIDIES

Deborah Fey O'Mora. Name.

The name was submitted as Deborah Fey O'Mora Chait, which suffered from a couple of stylistic problems. As documented in the LOI, it combined at least three languages (Irish, Yiddish and English/anglicized French or Irish). Yiddish, from Eastern Europe, has not been shown to have enough period interaction with Irish to justify combining them in a name. Moreover, we aren't convinced that the LOI's documentation indicates the submitter's true intent: Chait may be the Yiddish for "taylor", but it's also an inflected, aspirated form of the Irish for "cat". (We suspect the submitter was trying to be "of the Big Cat"; that would be an Chait Moir in Irish.) The simplest solution was to drop the Yiddish element, as the forms permit; the remainder of the name, combining two anglized Irish surnames with a late-period Puritan given name, is still shaky but acceptable.

The byname was originally submitted as Wibjorn, but changed to Vebjorn to match the examples in Geirr Bassi. Lady Harpy, citing Lind's Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn, has documented Wibiorn to 1428. We have therefore restored the submitter's original spelling; however, you might suggest to him that a patronymic form (e.g. Wibjornsson) would be more authentic.

Janie Fairchild. Name.

Janie appears to be a valid period diminutive of Jane, as Janny is from Jan (Reaney & Wilson 252)

Katheryn Spencer. Name.

Lars Wibjorn. Name and device. Or, a seahorse vert within a bordure azure bezanty.

The byname was originally submitted as Wibjorn, but changed to Vebjorn to match the examples in Geirr Bassi. Lady Harpy, citing Lind's Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn, has documented Wibiorn to 1428. We have therefore restored the submitter's original spelling; however, you might suggest to him that a patronymic form (e.g. Wibjornsson) would be more authentic.

Lisa is the submitter's mundane given name. The byname was originally submitted as Wibjorn, but changed to Vebjorn to match the examples in Geirr Bassi. Lady Harpy, citing Lind's Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn, has documented Wibiorn to 1428. We have therefore restored the submitter's original spelling; however, you might suggest to her that a patronymic form (e.g. Wibjornsdottir) would be more authentic.

Ryan von Gunterburg. Device change. Sable, a cross formy and in chief a coronet Or, a bordure counter-compony sable and argent.

His previous device (Argent, a cobra's head erect affronty couped sable, bellied argent, between two swords inverted sable, a chief checky sable and argent) is retained as a badge. This is a notable improvement.

The byname is modern Islandic for "quiet man". If the submitter would prefer a period Norse byname with the same meaning, you might suggest inn Kyrri "the Quiet, the Gentle".

Áedán Aisteach. Name and device. Azure, a natural dolphin naiant contourny argent, in chief three mullets of four points Or.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the mullets larger.

Nice badge!

Cináed mac Laisre. Name.

Colm Caimbeul. Device. Vert, in bend sinister two winged sheep statant contourny argent within a bordure argent semy of acorns proper.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the sheep larger.

Fionna Goodburne. Badge. (fieldless) A thistle purpure.

Nice, simple badge.

Gwydion of Blackmoore. Badge. (fieldless) A demi-sun sable.

The majority of charges, when couped, are couped in base by default (heads, hands apaumy, mountains, demi-lions, &c). The fact need not be blazoned here. Nice badge, by the way....

Joshua Frost. Device. Checky gules and Or, a chess rook within a bordure sable.

Lisette de Ville. Device. Per fess purpure and vert, a dove displayed, wings inverted within a bordure argent charged with a tressure per fess purpure and vert.

The submission caused us a few minutes of heartburn. The equal width of the outer three stripes, and the fact that the central stripe is of the field, gave this the appearance of a bordure voided, not of an orle within a bordure. Bordures voided and fimbriated have been disallowed since Aug 83. Playing with the widths a bit, to make this a bordure cotised, would be equally unacceptable. On the other hand, a bordure charged with a tressure is a perfectly legal design. In the end, we decided that the latter blazon is the most accurate and reproducible description of the submitted emblazon -- and since it appears to be legal, we've accepted it. It also guarantees the device to be clear of Wampage (Azure, an eagle displayed within a double tressure argent).
In heraldic art, the dove is drawn with a small tuft on its head, to promote identification. Please instruct the submitter on the correct depiction of her charge.

Raphael Eckhart. Device. Quarterly purpure and vert, a winged goblet Or and a ford proper.

Talon Tannahill. Name.

Thorun Geiri. Device. Argent, a raven contourny sable, on a chief vert two swords in saltire argent.

William de Montegilt. Device reblazon. Sable, a two-peaked mountain couped Or, capped argent.

When registered back in Oct 76, the word couped was omitted from the blazon.

Cala of Savatthi. Alternate persona name for Clémence d'Avignon.

The anti-popes of Avignon do not seem to have exercised the same secular authority there that their Roman counterparts did in the Vatican; and the legitimate Popes who made Avignon their seat did so as the guests of the Counts of Provence. (1911 E.Brit. , vol.iii, p.64, and vol.xx, pp.702-704) The name thus does not conflict with those Popes in Avignon (real and anti-) named Clement.

Dulcinea Margarita Teresa Velázquez de Ribera. Badge. (fieldless) A hammered dulcimer Or.

Some commenters raised the question of whether the hammered dulcimer is a period instrument. The exact form shown in this submission, played with hammers, is found in the Flemish painting "Mary Queen of Heaven", c.1485. (Mary Remnant, Musical Instruments: An Illustrated History, p.117) In theory, the modifier hammered is superfluous; this was the only period form of dulcimer. In practice, enough people are acquainted only with the post-period Appalachian dulcimer that it seems safer to specify.

Johann Ludwig von Coburg. Device. Sable, a chevron rompu Or between three long crosses moline argent.

Llyn Penllyn. Name and device. Per fess engrailed azure and argent, a decrescent and an increscent counterchanged.

Llyn is the submitter's mundane name. The byname was submitted as a Penllyn, intended to be Welsh for "of Penllyn". However, a does not mean "of" in Welsh. The normal practice for Welsh toponymics is to delete the preposition altogether; we've done so here.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the engrailing a bit deeper henceforth.

Morgant Lawdda. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was submitted as da Llaw, intended to be Welsh for "good hand". Following Lady Harpy's citation of Owen Lawgoch ("red-hand"), mid-14th Century, we have amended the spelling of the byname, leniting as necessary.

Richenza le Wydu. Device. Per chevron azure and gules, two acorns slipped and leaved and a garb Or.

Please instruct her to draw the acorns much larger henceforth.

Her previous device (Gules, three cypress saplings of three branches, one and two, within an annulet argent) is released.
There was some question as to the blazon of the seals. My feeling is that the in annulo placement visually dominates, and thus subsumes, any specification of direction. Widdershins vs. deasil is simply an artistic nuance of in annulo, and need not be blazoned.

This was an appeal of a return on the LoAR of Sept 92. At the time, I'd judged the three charges to be of roughly equal visual weight, and considered this a single group of three dissimilar charges (so-called "slot-machine heraldry"). Such practice is in general disallowed, per Rule VIII.1.a. The appeal provided extensive documentation, intended to support the submitted design in specific and the use of three dissimilar charges in general.
Much of the documentation did not support the concept of three dissimilar charges in a single group: while the examples did show three types of charge, they generally weren't in the same group. (E.g. the badge of Nordham, c.1525: Within a fetterlock argent garnished Or, an escutcheon azure charged with a lion's head erased argent. By our definitions, the lion's head is not of the same group as the fetterlock or escutcheon -- and it's arguable whether they're in the same group.) Others of the examples, such as the rose-thistle-trefoil badge of the United Kingdom, were post-period.
At least one of the examples cited, however, exactly matched the form of this submission: the badge of the Lord Chamberlain, c.1525, A cubit arm habited bendy sinister wavy of five pieces argent and azure and issuant out of a rose gules, the hand proper grasping an arrow. Additionally, it has been noted that Rule VIII.1.a describes the ban on "slot-machine heraldry" as a guideline, not an ironclad law. Finally, re-examination of the emblazon shows the crescent to be neither unarguably one of the primary charge group nor unarguably a negligible "held" charge; one could make a case for either ruling. Added to the mort of documentation, I have no qualms in now registering the badge.

Her previous device (Or, on a bend sinister cotised purpure, three male American kestrels palewise striking proper [Falco spaverius] ) is released. This is nicely improved.

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Aine of the Hounds. Device. Per bend sinister azure and ermine, two dog's heads couped counterchanged argent and sable.

The heads were blazoned mastiff's heads on the LOI, but emblazoned with longer muzzles than a mastiff could have (more like levrier's heads). We've simply blazoned these as generic dog's heads instead.

Alvar Pacheco de Cadiz. Name and device. Per chevron azure and sable, a chevron embattled between three tankards argent.

The given name was originally submitted as Alvar, but changed to Alvaro by the Western College to match their available documentation. Lord Palimpsest has found examples of Alvar dating back to 1040 (Díez Melcón, Apellidos Castallano-Leoneses). We've therefore restored the submitter's spelling.

Eleanor d'Avignon. Name and device. Per bend argent and vert, two dragonflies counterchanged.

Nice, simple armory.

Emmerick von Adlershorst. Name and device. Sable, an eagle displayed facing sinister Or, on a point pointed argent three crosses flory, one and two, sable.

The locative was submitted as Adlerhorst, without an S. Examples of similar constructions in German locatives (Adlershof, Falkenhorst) show the first element to be in the possessive case; we've altered this submission to do the same.

When their name change was considered on the LoAR of June 93, we should have noted that they had also changed from a Riding to a Shire. That change, at least, we can record here.

Eric Bjornsson. Name change (from Eric Bjarnarsson).

Giovanni di Milano. Name and device. Ermine, a cross cotised purpure.

In the full-size emblazon, the ermine spots do show between the cross and the cotises. Nor is the slight enhancement of the crossbar worth blazoning: the arms of the Templars (Argent, a chief sable, overall a cross gules) show a similar slight enhancement without being blazoned. This is a fine device.

Rheinfelden was "a free imperial town in the Middle Ages." (CLG 1573)

When registered waaaay back in Jan 73, the hand was blazoned as the primary charge, and its fesswise posture left unmentioned. A check of the emblazon showed the tree to be primary; we have amended the blazon accordingly.

Kelly is the submitter's mundane given name.

Moira of Kent. Name change (from Maura de Coursy).

This had been pended from the May 93 meeting.

Morphia Gildersleeve of Saffron Walden. Name change (from Frances of Aneala).

Mstislav Volodarovich Muromsky. Name and device. Or, a demi-bear rampant contourny sable, sustaining an axe and issuant from a base wavy gules.

Pádraig Donn McMathúna. Name and device. Argent, a brown bear statant to sinister proper within an annulet vert.

We've corrected the placement of accent marks in the given name and patronymic.

["Cry havok, and let slip the ducks of war!"]

Please instruct the submitter to use more ermine spots in the future.

Stephen Aldred of Rockley. Name and device. Per chevron vert and argent, a dragon passant argent and a hunting horn reversed gules, a chief argent.

Tristram Telfer. Name change (from Tristram du Bois).

William of Riverhaven. Holding name and device. Argent, three leeks vert and a bordure sable bezanty.

This was submitted under the name Caslan a Saint Keverne, which was returned on the LoAR of April 93.

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Andras Truemark. Name and device. Per chevron embattled gules and Or, three pheons inverted Or and a bear passant sable.

The byname doesn't seem to be validly derived. The LOI attempted to derive Truemark as a toponymic, from OE trêow-mearc "tree boundary". However, the examples in Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggest that Trowmark or Tremark would be more likely evolutions of such a construction. Nor does the submitter's intended meaning of "true to the [archery] mark" appear to be correct, for two reasons. First, I could find no citations of true to the mark as a period idiom, for archery or anything else. Second, the submitted construction could only have derived from trêowe-mearc "faithful [archery] target". In other words, instead of the submitter always hitting the target, the submitter would always be the target -- which is far enough from his intent that I'd hesitate to register the name without consulting with him first.
The submitter did not permit any changes, so we could neither alter the submitted spelling nor form a holding name. The device must therefore be returned as well. The miniscule size of the embattled line might have necessitated a return in any event; should he resubmit with this motif, please be sure he draws the embattlements larger.

This conflicts with the arms of the State of Victoria, Australia: Azure, five mullets (of seven, seven, six, five and eight points) in a representation of the Southern Cross argent. (The arms were granted in 1870. The badge of Victoria, which is the form quartered into the arms of Australia, includes an Imperial crown proper in chief; but that crown was not added until 1877. Crampton's Complete Guide to Flags, p.125.) There's a CD for the addition of the base, but not for the placement, or number of points, of one of the five mullets.

The name conflicts with the Windward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles (West Indies). The islands are cited in general references (e.g. the 1911 E.Brit. , vol.XXVIII, p.716), and so are important enough to protect. The change of designator (Islands, -shire) is worth no difference, per Rule V.4.d.
Two other possible problems with the name were mentioned in the commentary. The first was whether the name was constructed in a period manner. European colonization of the Windward Islands began in the early 1600s (CLG 2097); we assume they had acquired the name by then. Certainly, we can consider the name to be in the "grey area" of documentability between 1600 and 1650.
The second question, raised in the LOI, involved the use in the SCA, by a Society group, of the mundane name of the same group. Most of the officers and members of Windwardshire are mundanely the officers and members of the Windward Foundation, a 20th Century non-profit corporation. The Society does not permit its members to use their legal names as their SCA names, requiring some distance between modern and medieval identities; the prohibition is found in the Administrative Guidelines, Protected Items -- I: Any Name or Armory used by the Submitter outside the Society. The LOI raised the question as to whether the prohibition applied to groups as well as individuals.
A case could be made for maintaining some distance between modern and medieval identities, even for groups. The two most persuasive concerns are the need to avoid confusion, and the desire to not compel SCA members to join a modern group. The first concern can be better illustrated by, say, a campus group submitting the name of their college (e.g. a group at Santa Monica College, here in Caid, submitting the name College of Santa Monica). The second concern (which I hasten to note is as yet hypothetical!) would have the mundane group require membership in the mundane group as a condition for participating with the SCA group; it's irrelevant whether such a requirement were de jure or simply through social pressure.
The first concern was addressed by the commenters. Most of them felt that, just as simple non-identity prevented confusion between an individual's legal and Society names, it would prevent confusion between a group's legal and Society names. The mundane group is not called Windwardshire; the SCA group is never called anything else.
The other concern is not solely the province of the College of Arms. All the Powers That Be in a Kingdom should object to any illegal coercion such as I've described. A submissions herald might suspect, by a group's choice of name, that such coercion may be happening; if so, he should bring it to the attention of the Kingdom Seneschal, and the two officers should deal with the matter as seems best. (See the cover letter for a further discussion of the need for communication between Kingdom officers.) But the mere suspicion of possible future misconduct by a group is not, by itself, grounds for returning their name.
The problems are moot in this case: the conflict with the Windward Islands would prevent the Shire from using any close variant of their mundane name. But, although the issue is unlikely to arise again any time soon, the principles involved are worth keeping in mind.

Alexandra de la Mer Verte. Badge resubmission. Argent, on a pale wavy azure between two Latin crosses botonny vert, in pale a Latin cross botonny and two sea-anchors in saltire Or.

The design suffers from severe problems of identifiability. The worst problem was the "sea-anchors", which did not resemble any anchor we were able to document. For one thing, there was no place to attach the line or chain from the boat. The OED does mention sea-anchors, but dates them only from the 17th Century; and the term refers to a float with a sail, nothing like the charges shown here. We need some documentation for the charge as depicted.
Also, the wavy lines on the pale need to be drawn much deeper. Please instruct the submitter, should she resubmit with this motif.

The badge has two problems, either of which is sufficient for return. The first is the use of quaternary charges, or charges entirely on tertiaries. A sun eclipsed is considered equivalent to a sun charged with a roundel; the two are interchangeable blazons, and yield the same emblazon. The anchor atop the roundel is therefore a quaternary charge, forbidden per Rule VIII.1.c.ii.
The other problem is conflict. The Rules grant no difference whatsoever for the addition, removal, or changes to quaternary charges. This therefore conflicts with the device of Kourost Bernard of the East Woods (SCA), Sable, a sun eclipsed Or [i.e. a sun Or eclipsed sable]. There's a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the anchor.
It also conflicts with the device of Stefan of Seawood (SCA), Azure, upon a sun Or an eagle displayed sable. Again, there's a CD for fieldlessness, but since the sun is not a simple geometric charge, Rule X.4.j.ii doesn't apply; there is no difference for type only of the tertiary charge, and again no difference for the quaternary charge.

This conflicts with the badge of Nerissa Meraud de la Fontaine (SCA): Gules, a griffin passant to sinister bearing in its sinister talon a goblet Or. There's a CD for the field, but the difference between the griffin-variants is too small to be worth a second CD. The Rules specifically grant no heraldic difference for the "held" charge or slight change in posture.

We have no evidence that Dolores was used as a given name in period. Withycombe's discussion suggests the name sprang from the veneration of Our Lady of Sorrows (Mater dolorosa). According to Metcalf's Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend, pp.231-232, the observation of the Sorrows of the Virgin (by the Servite Order) began in 1668, and was not made universal in the Catholic Church until 1727; it seems unlikely that a given name could have been based on it in period. Pending evidence that Dolores is a reasonable period given name, it must be returned.
The changes permitted by the submitter would not eliminate the problematic portion of her name; since she permitted a holding name to be formed, however, her armory was registered under the name Camille of Brymstone College. Should she resubmit with a similar name, you might suggest that la Gitana "the Gypsy" would be a more reasonable epithet than de los Gitanos "of the Gypsies".

This conflicts with Claudas (Fabulous Heraldry, p.57): Azure, a pine Or. There's a single CD, for the field.
Against the arms of DuBois (Azure, a[n oak] tree Or) and the mon of Arima (Dark, a cedar tree light), there's a CD for the type of tree. That, with a CD for the field or tincturelessness, brings these clear.

The use of the Old Norse preposition af requires the following word to also be in Old Norse. Durness is Scots English; the Old Norse equivalent would be Dýrnes. Moreover, af would cast the placename into the dative case; the correct form of the phrase would be af Dýrnesi. We might have made those changes, or substituted the English of for af, but the submitter forbade any grammatical corrections. The name must therefore be returned; the submitted armory has been registered under the holding name David of Côte du Ciel.

The previous name, Order of the Flower of Chivalry, was returned Oct 90 for infringing on the SCA Order of Chivalry. The resubmission is equally an infringement. Though both names are technically clear by the addition of a substantive phrase (List of, Flower of), the overwhelming appearance is of a collection of members of the Chivalry. It's worth noting that the submission forms give the intended Order name as List of Chivalry -- no "Order of" -- which appears to be closer to the Barony's intent and which is definitely a conflict.
This must again be returned. We recommend to the Barony that any further resubmissions avoid any use of the term Chivalry.

This conflicts with the arms of Sanders (Riestap): D'azur à une ruche d'or (Azure, a beehive Or). There's a single CD, for the addition of the semy bees.

The invecting isn't deep enough to be visible from any distance. Period armorial art used large, bold lines, so the arms could be identified from a distance. This must be returned for redrawing, per Rule VIII.3.

The name has a minor spelling problem: neither Myrddin nor ddraig should use the double-R. Far more troublesome was the allusion to the sorcerer Merlin, of Arthurian legend. The submitted name translates as "Merlin, son of the Red Dragon". Depending on the version of the legend one prefers, Merlin was either the son of Satan (whose symbol, according to Revelations 12:9, was a dragon), or the son of Aurelius, High King of Britain (whose symbol, as betokened by the title Pendragon, was a dragon). The fact that the Red Dragon is the badge of Wales, often supposed to be the source of the Merlin legend, only strengthens the allusion. The submitted name is simply too strongly suggestive of Merlin the enchanter, and must be returned for that reason.

The name is insufficiently documented. Numira wasn't documented as a given name, or indeed as any Arabic word; the submitter documented nimr "tiger", but showed no connection between it and Numira. Nasifah is documented as a given name, but not as an epithet (which the article al- would imply). Finally, while min Dimashq "out of Damascus" may be grammatically correct, the normal Arabic idiom would be al-Dimashqi "the Damascene". The submitter allowed no corrections; pending evidence of correct period construction, this must be returned.
The device was registered under the holding name Kim of Loch Salann.

The charge in chief was blazoned as a horse, but in fact is a hornless unicorn: it has a lion's tail, cloven hooves, and a beard -- all the attributes of a unicorn except the horn. Lord Crescent is correct in noting that the same rationale banning unicornate horses should also ban hornless unicorns. In either case, the distinction between genuine horses and honest unicorns is blurred; if we wish to grant period difference between these charges, we must insist on period emblazons. This must be returned for redrawing.
The primary charge was blazoned as a bend on the LOI. This would have caused the submission to be pended, had there been no immediate reason for return. Should he resubmit with this motif, please have him draw the ordinary a bit wider.

As drawn, the arrows are not recognizable from any distance: the points and fletching are too small, and the shafts too narrow. Arrows in period armorial art were drawn with exaggerated barbs and feathers, the better to be identified. We've returned badly-drawn arrows in the past (v. the LoAR of July 92, p.18), per Rule VIII.3; these must likewise be returned.
Additionally, the arrangement of charges is not good heraldic style: the design is visually busy, and the conjoined wolves' heads are, at best, awkward to blazon (which is always symptomatic of poor design). These might have been reason enough for return; in combination with the unrecognizable arrows, there are more than sufficient grounds to return this for redesign.

Laeghaire O Laverty. Badge. (fieldless) A carver's mallet sable.

Withdrawn by the Principal Herald.

This conflicts with the arms of Albany (Papworth 314): Gules, an eagle displayed and a bordure argent. There's a CD for the change in the bird's posture, but nothing for its type: eagles and owls are both raptors, and the main heraldic difference -- the head posture -- is specifically worth no difference under the Rules (as well as having been subsumed into the rest of the posture change).
Even when affronty, "owls got feet". Should the client resubmit with a similar motif, please instruct him to draw the owl correctly.

Magdalene Katherine MacDonald of Sleat. Name.

As Lady Ensign has noted, the combination of a clan name with the seat or territory of the clan is the prerogative of the chief of the clan, and is thus disallowed in the Society. The submission therefore infringes on the chief of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. The problem might have been avoided by deleting the toponymic, but the submitter forbade any changes to her name.

The previous submission, without the annulet, was returned Aug 92 for conflict with the badge of France's Order of St. Michael. The addition of the annulet removes that conflict, but introduces stylistic problems: The annulet is too thin to be readily identified. Moreover, the angel is just barely overall, which has been reason for return in the past; and if the angel were drawn more fully surmounting the annulet, the latter might be obscured to the point of unidentifiability. Either way, this must be returned for redesign.
If he resubmits with this motif, he should consider drawing the annulet a good deal thicker, with the angel confined within and abutting its inner edge. Simplifying the design, perhaps by removing a few tinctures, would also be advisable. (If he'd like to explicitly blazon this as the Archangel Michael, so as to preserve the allusion to his name, he's welcome to do so.)

The name was returned on the LoAR of Jan 93, and the submitter forbade the construction of a holding name. Without a name under which to register the device, it too must be returned.

Aurelia du Coeur Sincère. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a goblet bendwise distilling a gout, within a bordure "nebuly" counterchanged.

The nebuly line of partition is unidentifiable on the emblazon; it more strongly resembles a potenty line with the corners rounded off. This must be returned for redrawing.
If she resubmits with this motif, also instruct her to draw the gout larger. Even as a "maintained" charge, it should be drawn large enough to see.

The sable chain has insufficient contrast on the azure trunk. While artistic details are not as strictly bound by the Rule of Tincture as are primary charges, this submission still does not permit ready identification of all its charges.

The submission has two emblazonry problems, each sufficient for return. First, the rayonny line is too small to be recognizable from any distance. Second, the beast is not identifiable as a lemming: this is partially due to the drawing style (which has rendered the lemming as a, mm, bolder beast than the vole-like creature one expects), partially due to counterchanging over a complex line (itself a borderline practice), and partially due to the lemming's counterchanging not being of the field. This must be returned for redesign and redrawing.

The bouvier de Flandres does not seem to be a period breed of dog. According to Simon & Schuster's Guide to Dogs, #43, "There is no real agreement concerning the origin of this Franco-Belgian breed. Probably it was formed by crossing the griffon and the Beauceron..."; the griffon and Beauceron breeds, in turn, were developed in the 19th and 18th Centuries respectively.
Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, period blazons did not specify an exact breed of dog; at best, they would describe a dog by its general characteristics (levrier) or for a cant (talbot). The SCA does permit known period breeds to be specified in blazon, but I consider the practice an anomaly or "weirdness"; another anomaly in the design, such as the use of Quarterly arrondi, might itself be sufficient grounds for return.
Finally, this conflicts with the arms of Martyn (Papworth 145): Argent, two talbots passant sable. There's a CD for the field, but because Jean's dogs are of one of the field tinctures, the placement of the charges is forced in this case; thus, there's not a CD between the in bend sinister of Jean's dogs and the in pale of Martyn's. (Had Jean's field been, say, Quarterly gules and Or, we'd agree there would be a CD for placement of charges. Only when the charges share a tincture with the field do we not grant a CD for placement; placement is forced in that case.)
Nota bene: The arrondi lines were not necessary to remove the appearance of marshalled armory. Per Rule XI.3, a quarterly field with two uncharged quarters, the other quarters bearing identical charges, is not considered marshalling.

The bordure is too narrow, its embattling too small, to be identifiable at any distance. Complex lines were drawn boldly in period, the better to be seen. The must be returned for redrawing.

The same design was previously returned, on the LoAR of Dec 90, for conflict with the arms of Cressall (Papworth 1023), Azure, on a pile argent three crescents in pale proper [sic]. The conflict is still valid: we grant no difference between Argent chaussé azure and Azure, a pile argent. Conflict must therefore be checked as though this were blazoned Azure, on a pile argent an angel azure; we count a single CD, for the changes to the tertiary group.

The submission suffers some severe design problems. The tinctures of the Saracens are, except for their faces, undefined; indeed, as rendered in the full-size emblazon, the vesting cannot be blazoned in heraldic tinctures. The use of proper Saracens, proper vesting, and proper crooks is excessive. The tinctures of the fountain had not been adequately defined in the LOI's blazon ("a fountain argent and azure"), making commentary difficult. Finally, though the fountain was blazoned as between the Saracens in the LOI, the full-sized emblazon shows the fountain slightly surmounting them -- in short, they are standing behind it, giving the design an appearance of depth contrary to the precepts of medieval heraldry. This must be returned for redesign.

This conflicts with the arms of Iraq (Crampton's Flags of the World, p.55): Per pale gules and sable, on a pale argent three mullets vert. (Iraq's flag is their arms turned sideways.) There's a single CD, for changes to the tertiary charges.

This conflicts with the mon of Okudaira (Hawley 70), Dark, a crescent light; and with the tinctureless badge of James IV of Scotland (Fox-Davies' Heraldic Badges, p.118), A crescent. In each case there's a single CD, for tincturelessness; the per-pale division of Ysabeau's crescent is part of the tincture, and is not counted twice. She needs another difference unrelated to tincture.

Lyon's Mountain, Shire of. Name.

Under current Rules, this conflicts with the Mountain Confederation (SCA), and with An Tir's Mountains Pursuivant. In either case, the change in designator (Shire of, Confederation, Pursuivant) is worth no difference; and the addition of the modifier (Lyon's) insufficient to bring it clear.
The justification for the name presented in the LOI (a mountain near the French town of Lyon) doesn't appear reasonable. However, using lyon as an archaic spelling of "lion", the name follows that same pattern as that of the Silesian town of Löwenberg (now called Lwowek Slaski), chartered 1217.

This must be returned, for either of two reasons. The first is that the orle flory has been disallowed for SCA use: it's too reminiscent of the double tressure flory counter-flory, which is an augmentation from the Scots crown. This precedent has been affirmed as recently as the LoAR of Sept 89. Indeed, given period renditions of the arms of Scotland with an orle flory instead of a double tressure flory counter-flory (e.g. Siebmacher, plate 2), and given a recent statement from the Lyon Office of Scotland declining to register orles flory without the Queen's express command, the precedent seems worth keeping.
The second reason is that we've received no archive copy for this submission. Even were everything else in order, it would still be returned.

Middle, Kingdom of the. Name and badge for Order of the Cavendish Knot. (fieldless) A Cavendish knot vert.

The name conflicts with the Company of the Knot, a monarchical order of knighthood founded in Naples in 1352 (Boulton, The Knights of the Crown, p. 211). We have returned names for conflict against this ere now: cf. the Company of the Steel Knot (Rowena le Sarjent, LoAR of Jan 92).
The badge conflicts with the badge of the House of Savoy (Gayre's Heraldic Standards, p.95): A Savoy (or Cavendish) knot. The two knots are identical; as the badge is tinctureless, we can get but a single CD between it and this submission. (As a side note: Several modern heraldry texts describe the Cavendish knot, but none explicitly give it as the badge of the Cavendish family. Indeed, texts from before World War II -- Fox-Davies' books, Woodward, Parker, early editions of Boutell -- don't mention the Cavendish knot at all. Either it was only recently uncovered as an old Cavendish badge, or else the knot itself is of 20th Century provenance! It's moot, given the exact conflict with the Savoy knot, but someone may decide it merits further research nonetheless.)
Conflict was also cited against other "knotty" badges: e.g. the badge of Wake (Heraldic Badges 152), A Wake knot, and the badge of Kemrith Danil (SCA), Argent, a Bourchier knot vert. In the cases of charges nowed (e.g. serpents nowed, or lions with nowed tails), we've held that "knots is knots" and granted no difference for the exact form of knotwork. In cases where the single primary charge is a recognized heraldic knot, however, we can see granting a CD between certain types of knots. In particular, the Savoy/Cavendish knot is sufficiently different from any other standard knot that I would call this submission clear of the cited conflicts.

Cecelia Cormary. Device. Per bend sinister vert and azure, a sea-horse contourny argent.

This conflict with the device of Elspeth Grizell of Dunfort (SCA): Quarterly vert and purpure, a sea-horse contourny argent. There's a single CD, for the field.

The use of a compony ordinary that shares a tincture with its field has been disallowed since at least the LoAR of July 85; the precedent was confirmed Sept 87, April 89, and Aug 90. This submission is an excellent illustration of the reason for the ban: the visual appearance is not of a pale, but of a group of billets straddling the field division. The lack of identifiability is sufficient reason for return. We suggest making the pale a solid tincture.

This conflicts with the arms of Hitchins (Papworth 366): Sable, a castle argent. There is a single CD, for the addition of the secondary charges.
It also conflicts with the device of Anne of the White Tower (SCA): Sable, a tower argent. Again, there's a CD for the secondary charges; the current Rules grant no difference between a tower and a castle.

The name conflicts with Aran Island, off the coast of Ireland. It's listed in general references (e.g. the 1991 E.Brit. , vol.VI, p.516), so is important enough to protect. It also conflicts with the Earldom of Arran, in Scotland, whose name derives from a similar toponymic (ibid, p.585). In neither case is the designator (House of, Island, Earldom of) worth any difference.
The badge conflicts with the mon of Arima (Hawley 84): Dark, a mascle light. Mundane mon are treated as tinctureless armory for the purposes of counting conflict. There's a CD for tincturelessness, but per Rule X.4.d, the second needed CD must come from a category that doesn't involve tincture; the gyronny division of the mascle is thus worth no difference in this case.

Conflicts with the arms of Fane (Papworth 907): Azure, three dexter gauntlets Or. There is only once CD, for the addition of the crocodile.
The crocodile was blazoned on the LOI as coward. This is not strictly correct: coward means "with the tail between the hind legs", whereas this crocodile is standing with all four feet on its tail. If the submitter intends a coward crocodile, please instruct her on its correct depiction.

None!

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN PENDED:

ATENVELDT

Loch Salann, Barony of. Name for the List of Grace.

This was submitted on the LOI as the Order of the List of Grace. The submission forms, and the petition, simply give the Order's name as the List of Grace, which is certainly more plausible. The submission is pended to the Dec 93 meeting to allow for commentary under the correct form of the name.

The tinctures of the mouse and needle were omitted from the LOI. This is pended to the Dec 93 meeting to allow for commentary under the correct blazon.

Kökejin of the Iron Horde. Device. Argent, a pall vert, overall a stag's massacre sable, a bordure vert semy of water-bougets argent.

The charges on the bordure are not drawn as recognizable water-bougets. Some commenters felt they resembled torii, other described them as Chinese ideograms; but in fact they are none of the above. However, the lady submitted the charges in good faith, copying the depictions of water-bougets used in the armory of Mochi of the Iron Horde (registered Sept 92). At that time, I stated that the charges were within the acceptable variation of water-bougets found in period armorial art. Upon reviewing my sources, however, I now believe that statement to have been in error. The period water-bougets closest to this form are in the arms of Rose or Ross c.1265 (Anglo-Norman Armory I, p.68); but while the torii-like tops are the same, the bottom limbs of Rose's bougets spread out in the familiar "bag" shape which is characteristic of the charge. Without those bags, this rendition of a bouget simply doesn't hold water [as it were].
I don't feel it's fair to return this submission for the unidentifiability of its water-bougets; the submitter is simply copying a form I had explicitly declared acceptable. On the other hand, the water-bougets are unidentifiable as drawn, and having been convinced of my mistake with Mochi's device I have no wish to repeat it. Fortunately, the submission itself calls these water-bougets; I thus assume she truly desires that charge, not torii or whatever. I am therefore pending this to the December 1993 meeting, to give her a chance to provide the Laurel office with a correct emblazon. If she sends us a drawing with identifiable water-bougets -- that is, with the bottom limbs flared into bags -- I will accept the device.

Alatea di Firenze. Device. Vert, an annulet Or within a bordure counter-compony vert and Or.

The miniature emblazon showed a bordure embattled, while the full-sized emblazon showed a proper counter-compony. This is pended to the Dec 93 meeting, to allow for commentary under the correct emblazon.

The blazon on the LOI accidentally omitted the tincture of the dragon's head, making it argent by default. This is pended to the Dec 93 meeting, to allow for commentary under the correct blazon.

Luke Band Griffith. Name.

This was submitted on the LOI as Luke Bond Griffith. The typo was caught by the new Lady White Stag, who passed it on to me. While I suspect the corrected name is as acceptable as the submitted name, I hesitate to simply make the change without documentation and commentary; this is pended to the Dec 93 meeting, to give the College a chance to look this over.