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March 20, 1997
Unto the members of the College of Arms and all others
who may read this missive do Mistress Jaelle of Armida, Laurel
Queen of Arms, and Mistress Sionyn Muirgen ní Dhomnall,
Pelican Queen of Arms, send Greetings!
The March 1997 Laurel meeting was held on Saturday,
March 8, 1997, with a road show at Gulf Wars in Meridies on Saturday,
March 15, and considered the following letters of intent: Drachenwald
(November 7), Drachenwald (November 8), Atlantia (November 9),
An Tir (November 13), Ansteorra (November 15), Caid (November
18), Meridies (November 20), Middle (November 23), Meridies (November
24), East (November 26), West (November 26), Ansteorra (November
27).
The April 1997 Laurel meeting is scheduled for Saturday,
April 12, 1997 and will consider the following letters of intent:
Trimaris (December 12), Drachenwald (December 13), Atlantia (December
14), Ansteorra (December 14), Caid (December 16), An Tir (December
18), West (December 21), Calontir (originally dated November 23,
redated to December 23), East (dated December 24), Meridies (dated
December 26), Outlands (dated December 27), Middle (dated December
28), and Caid (dated December 29). Original commentary on
these LoIs must be in the College's hands no later than February
28, 1997. Responses and rebuttals to commentary must be in the
College's hands no later than March 31, 1997.
The May 1997 Laurel meeting has been rescheduled
for Saturday, May 10, 1997 and will consider the following. letters
of intent: Lochac (December 31, 1996), Atlantia (January 4), Atenveldt
(originally dated October 21, 1996, redated to January 5, 1997.),
Drachenwald (January 5), Ansteorra (January 8), An Tir (January
12), Meridies (January 25), West (January 26), and East (January
27). Original commentary on these LoIs must be in the College's
hands no later than March 31, 1997. Responses and rebuttals to
commentary must be in the College's hands no later than April
30, 1997.
The June 1997 Laurel meeting is scheduled for Saturday,
June 7, 1997 with a roadshow meeting at the Known World Symposium
on Sunday, June 22, 1997 and will consider the following letters
of intent: Lochac (February 4), Caid (February 5), Ansteorra (February
7), Atlantia (February 9), Drachenwald (February 10), Meridies
(February 19), Calontir (February 25), Middle (February 25), Ansteorra
(February 27), West (February 27) and Caid (February 28). Original
commentary on these LoIs must be in the College's hands no later
than April 30, 1997. Responses and rebuttals to commentary must
be in the College's hands no later than May 31, 1997.
The July 1997 Laurel meeting is tentatively scheduled
for Saturday, July 12, 1997.
Not all Letters of Intent may be considered when
they are originally scheduled on this Cover Letter. Date of mailing
of the LoI, date of receipt of the Laurel packet, or other factors
may delay consideration of certain Letters of Intent. Additionally,
not all Letters of Intent received have been scheduled because
the administrative requirements (receipt of the forms packet,
receipt of the necessary fees, etc.) have not yet been met.
Changes to the Roster
East:
Please drop Alison MacDermot (Andrea Habura), 25
Seneca Street, Troy, NY 12180 from the mailing list and roster.
Middle:
Escutcheon Herald has moved: Paul Wickenden of Thanet
(Paul W. Goldschmidt), 755 Siemers Street, Platteville, WI 53818;
(608) 348-6209; goldschmidt@uwplatt.edu
Laurel Ombudsman:
The Laurel Ombudsman, Meastra Margherita, assures
me that she does not need letters of intent of comment
sent to her. Please remove her from your mailing lists.
An Tir:
Black Lion's phone number is 503-286-6491.
Avacal Herald is the same as Sanguinarius Herald.
The blank entry for Avacal Herald may be deleted.
(Sanguinarius is the herald's title for the Principality of Avacal.)
Couronne Rouge Herald is mis-entered as Cordon
Rouge Herald.
West:
Please add Owen ap Morgan (Earl Jones) 3825 Canterbury
Drive, Redding, CA 960024887; (916) 2235405 as Leveret
Herald to your roster and mailing list. Since he is a returning
commenter, we are waiving the requirement to produce a timely
letter of comment.
Reblazon time
A question was raised about heraldic seahorses versus
natural ones. Going through the files, and pulling most of what
we have blazoned as a seahorse, natural seahorse, or hippocampus,
we found out that a number of them were either misindexed, and/or
misblazoned. Since we give a CD between the seahorse (the heraldic
monster, half horse and half fish), and the natural seahorse (the
fish), this could lead to problems. Additionally, some of the
scribes were confused as to which one a hippocampus was, since
it glosses both ways, depending on what source you use.
Therefore, we have reblazoned all the misblazons,
and have substituted the term natural seahorse for hippocampus.
As with all heraldic versus natural charges, the default is the
heraldic item, so a seahorse is the monster, and the natural seahorse
the fish.
We are also no longer going to register Bengal tigers
proper. They must be in a standard, heraldic tincture (with or
without markings). We have registered as proper both gules and
Or Bengal tigers, leaving them with no default tincture. Plain
natural tigers proper, are still Or, marked sable.
Regalia
We have been asked what happens when someone who
lives in one kingdom, owns regalia that is legal to him by Society
and that kingdoms laws, then moves to another kingdom, where it
is against the kingdom laws and or traditions. The answer is very
simple; it is grandfathered to him, and he may wear it. Note:
this same question has been ruled on, with the same answer, by
at least two of my predecessors.
Reports to Pelican
I have been informed by Pelican that not all of the
Principal Heralds are sending her quarterly reports. Let me remind
you that it is required check the Administrative
Handbook for details.
Web Page Update
This is a reminder to everyone that the official
Laurel Web page can be reached by going to http://www.sca.org
and clicking on heraldry and following the links from there. So
far we have the RfS, the Glossary of Terms, a number of LoARs,
and three educational articles there in Word Perfect 5.1 and HTML.
There will be more as we get the various pieces into HTML. If
anyone would like to HTML articles for this, please contact me.
Please spread the word about this.
Forms
This is a call once again for a complete set of blank
submission forms from each kingdom, with the parts that you think
your kingdom has to have, and may be specific to your kingdom
highlighted. For example, your kingdom has principalities, and
you want to track which principality the submission came from.
If you do not get the forms to me, I will not be able to take
your kingdoms needs into account when we redesign the forms.
Holding Names
The submission from the West of Margie of Glen More,
which was a change of holding name from Margie of Stormhold generated
a lot of discussion in the College. The name had originally been
submitted as Margie of Glen More, and returned, but the holding
name of Margie of Stormhold was formed, since that was the name
on the forms, though not, as it turned out, the submitters legal
name. She resubmitted as a change from a holding name, using the
argument that the name Margie was grandfathered to her. The entire
issue hinged on whether or not a holding name is grandfathered
to the submitter.
Corpora, C.3.b says
Any item once registered shall remain registered
unless the owner requests its release, and shall be accepted in
the Society for the person for whom it was registered without
regard to changes in the rules and standards applied to future
submissions, or to the membership status of the owner.
Furthermore, it has already been ruled that a holding name is the submitter's registered name; Baron Bruce as Laurel said
. . . the holding name is indeed a submitter's registered
name, until such time as a corrected name is resubmitted. It's
in the A&O, it's on the file folder in Laurel's files, we
check it for conflict and protect it afterward
that fits the definition of ``registered'' in Laurel's eyes. The
holding name is to be used in court, on scrolls, on the tourney
field, and for all official functions until
the submitter changes it. We encourage the submitter to change
it: by definition, a holding name is used when we would otherwise
have to return the armory submission for lack of a name, and we
charge no fee for changing a holding name.
And, in fact, on at least one occasion Baron Bruce
declined to form a holding name, because the submitter's mundane
name was considered intrusively modern.
Based on Corpora and Laurel Office precedent, the
element is grandfathered to her.
New From Free Trumpet Press West
The 19th update to the O&A, covering the second
half of 1996, is now available from Free Trumpet Press West for
$6.
It's got some nifty new features, such as showing
changed/corrected/released/transferred/redesignated/converted
items in strikeout type and abbreviating/omitting the kingdomofsubmission
info, in the ordinary only, to save space.
Reminder:
Let me repeat what I said last month. Letters of
intent must be mailed to the entire college by the last day of
the month in order to be considered for that month. Letters postmarked
the month after the date of the letter will be redated to the
month of the postmark.
LoAR Subscriptions and Roster changes:
Send roster changes, additions, subtractions, subscriptions
to the LoAR and address changes to: Mistress Sionyn Muirgen ní
Dhomnall, Pelican Queen of Arms, Jackie Watkins, 3532 Winding
Wind Cove, Bartlett, TN, 381353044. Please make all checks
or money orders payable to "SCA Inc. College of Arms".
The cost is currently $25.00 a year.
Also, remember all administrative issues (requests
for warrants, quarterly reports, etc.) need to be sent to Pelican.
Certified mail.
I cannot accept certified mail at home. If you need
to send me mail return receipt requested, contact me privately,
and I will send you my work address.
Miscellany:
"And more especially that [the Provincial Kings
of Arms] strictly and carefully do survey view and take knowledge
of all Coats of Arms Crests Cognizances and Devises set up in
all public Places within their respective provinces; and to correct
comptrole reform reverse pull down and deface as the several Cases
shall require all such Arms, Crests, Cognizances, Devises, Archievements
and other ensigns of Honour which are or shall be unlawful or
usurped or unlawfully used at any Funeralls otherwise or by any
person or persons whatsoever or set up placed or used in anu such
public place or places or upon any Utensils or other things whatsoever
within their respective provinces, contrary to the Laws, Rules
and Usages of Arms As also to make infamous by Proclomation at
the Assises or General Quarter Sessions within their said provinces
respectively all and every person or persons as shall usurp or
unlawfully use or take upon him or them any Title of Honour, Dignity,
or Worship: And likewise to signify to the Sheriffs and other
Officers named in their Commission his Majesties express prohibition
of them and every of them to give the Stile or Title of Equire
or Gentlemen to any person or persons who hath not just right
thereunto."
Harleian Society publications, New Series Vol 4,
"Munimenta Heraldica 14841984" pp 112123.
Until next month, pray believe that I am, and remain,
Your faithful servant,
Jaelle of Armida
Laurel Queen of Arms