Please instruct the submitter to draw the roundel larger.

Note: this does not replace their current badge (also for the populace) Checky Or and argent, a lion's head caboshed sable. Both badges are for the use of the populace.

Note: this does not replace their current ensign Checky Or and argent, a lion's head caboshed sable., but rather is another option. Note: the field checky Or and argent is grandfathered to kingdom.

Submitted as Æthelfrith se Hlud, the article in Old English, like hic and ille in Latin has a more demonstrative connotation than it does in modern English (and like the Latin adjectives can be used pronominally), and so we have dropped the article. We have changed the byname to Hluda as attested in Tenvik.

Her previous device Argent, two bars vert overall two piles inverted in point between in chief two acorns inverted gules., is hereby released.

She has a letter of permission to conflict from Karawin Mantell Argent a cat couchant to sinister sable and on a chief indented three pairs of needles in saltire argent. A question was raised in commentary, as whether there was a CD between needles and arrows. Given the big and bold fletching, we see no reason not to give a CD.

Against Wolfgang Schwarzburg Per saltire sable and gules, on a fireball Or enflamed proper a winged cat segreant sable., there is a CD for fieldlessness, and one for the change of the coloration of the flames. since the flames are at least one half of the charge.

Submitted as Jacobus Mapos Catomagli, actual surviving written forms of Latin-British names from this period invariably use a Latin context for the connecting elements and grammatical endings. Therefore, we have replaced mapos with the Latin filius.

Found on the LoI as Magnus Drache, it was originally submitted as Magnus Dracha and changed in kingdom. Metron Ariston has provided evidence that the originally submitted form is acceptable so we have restored it to the original form.

Submitted as Muirinn nic Seáin, the patronymic needed to be lenited. We have done so.

Against Dorcas Dorcadas Or, a goblet purpure, jeweled proper., there is a CD for fieldlessness, and one for the addition of the significant flames.

Submitted as Aithne O'Riain, this combines a feminine Anglicized given name with a misspelled masculine patronymic. The correct Gaelic form of the patronymic is Ó Riain. Since, we do not mix English and Gaelic orthography in the same name, we have changed the patronymic to the Anglicized form to match the given name.

Submitted as Brighid Henroten, this combines Gaelic and German orthography in the same name as well as using an undocumented byname. We have substituted the German form of Bridget for the given name, and a correctly constructed German byname.

Submitted as Caitlin Cowan, this combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. Since having the given name be Gaelic is the most important part to the submitter, we have changed the byname to a Gaelic form.

Her former device Per bend argent and sable, a rose purpure barbed and seeded proper and a lion couchant guardant Or) is hereby released.

Nice armory!

A question of reproducibility was raised in commentary in regards to this submission. Of particular relevance to this case are period heraldic depictions of buildings. There are, particularly in Continental heraldry, many coats incorporating everything from individual buildings up to entire cities. Even a casual examination of multiple sources will show that there was little regularity in depiction. The blazon for such charges is characteristically vague: "a church" or "a city". Clearly any variation in depiction is a matter of artistry, not heraldry.

In this case, anyone viewing the emblazon will recognize the charge as a mosque. A competent heraldic artist may not produce this particular mosque, but will presumably produce a drawing which, again, the viewers will recognize. This situation is no different from period heraldic depictions of churches.

This is a change to our normal policy of having the first registration of a charge not documented as having been used in period heraldry be the defining example of the charge. In this specific case, since the period usage of buildings varied so widely, we are comfortable with not having a defining example.

Submitted as Conall MacSeaghain, the submitter requested the Scots Gaelic form of his name. We have changed it accordingly.

Submitted on the LoI Eiríkr Mjoksiglandi Sigurðarson, the LoI misspelled the descriptive. We have corrected it to match the documented form which was on the forms. His previous name Eirikr Sigurdharson, is to be retained as an alternate name.

Submitted as Nikolai Dmitrii Iur'ev Ivakhaik, the LoI typoed Ivakhnik for Ivakhaik. However, it is not a surname, but rather an early-period Serbian byname, and not compatible with the rest of the name. We have eliminated it in order to register the rest of the name and the armory. Please inform the submitter that we have found virtually no evidence of double given names in Russian.

This is clear of Rebecca of Twywn, called the Demanding, Vert, a domestic cat's head affronty argent, collared and grasping in its mouth a dagger fesswise, hilt to sinister, argent hilted sable., as cited on the LoI, with one CD for type of head, and one CD for the dagger which is large enough to be a co-primary. Note: there is nothing for the collar on the cat, which is the same tincture as the head. Nice cant!

Her former device Argent, a peacock pavenated to base proper, a bordure purpure., is hereby released.

Nice armory!

We have kept the blazon of the fish as an alewife for the sake of the cant.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the fimbriation less widely.

Submitted as Mahliqa bint Ali Zibec, the only documentation for Zibec came from Arabian Nights. According to al-Jamal:

He then went on to say:

Since no documentation could be found for Zibec as a given or byname, we have dropped it.

Submitted as Gerard du Montagne, the since Montagne is a feminine word, the correct prepositional form is de la. We have made this correction.

Submitted as Giovannino di Vidor, the correct prepositional form with a locative is da. We have made this correction.

This is a resubmission of a device returned in September 1997. That device was identical to this, save that the crowns were voided, as in the arms of the West. The submission was returned since crowns are not a voidable charge. In commentary, Brachet said in regards to this submission:

There are two precedents relevant to the issue of whether or not we permit what is effectively a grandfather clause to submitters in the same geographical area as the group with the grandfather clause.

The first involves the rivenstar:

The second involves counterchanging over an ordinary:

Searching the ordinary, we only find two cases of a crown voided registered to an individual. Therefore, we see no reason to overturn the precedent and allow voided crowns.

Her former name Saidhbhín Anastasia Ní Dhuinn, is hereby released.

Note: Dineen is her mundane name.

The armory was submitted under the name Eleanor de Warren.

Her former device Per pale azure and Or, a Russian firebird displayed counterchanged and in chief a coronet gules, all within on a bordure engrailed three roundels counterchanged., is hereby retained as a badge.

Her former device, Checky argent and azure, in pale two otters statant contourny and statant sable., is hereby released.

The armory was submitted under the name Talib al-Mulk ibn Hanif ibn Habib Abdul-Malik ibn Husam al-Salih al Albarrazini.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure wider.

Submitted as Marguerite Gisele du Chat, no evidence was presented for the form du Chat, but only for the form Mont du Chat. Since using the surname "du Chat" to indicate of the place Mont du Chat is equivalent of somebody living in the Vale of the White Horse calling themselves X of the White Horse, we have changed the byname to match the documented form.

Submitted as Merideth ni Sionnach, the byname needed to be lenited and put into the genitive. We have done so.

Submitted as Muirghein Fionn, the byname needed to lenited. We have done so.

The armory was submitted under the name Nikodemus Sabas Victorius.

The question was raised in commentary as to whether gyronny arrondy is a CD from plain gyronny. While a chief enarched does not count for difference against a plain chief, on a field division such as arrondy we are willing to give the necessary CD.

Please instruct the submitter on how to draw a per chevron line of division.

Submitted as Valeria Àngeli Sforza, on the July 1997 LoAR the name Sforza was ruled to be presumptuous. While an argument was made on the LoI to overturn the precedent, no examples were presented of period use of the name outside of the royal line. Absent such evidence, the precedent cannot be overturned. We have dropped Sforza in order to register the name.

He has a letter of permission to conflict with Kristroðr Bjarnarson, Gyronny azure and argent, a vol Or.

Submitted as Kamle Kropotova, Kamle is almost certainly a variant spelling as Russian feminine names all end in -a. Thus, the name that is documented seems to be a spelling variation. To use it in this spelling, the entire name should follow the same convention of changing a terminal -a into -e. Since the "e" in this case is pronounced like the French é and thus preserves the sound the submitter wants, we have done so.

Submitted as Rossilin Katrin von Hohenzollern, no evidence was presented and none could be found for Rossilin as a period name of any sort. We have dropped it in order to register the name.

His previous device Gyronny of fourteen Or and gules, a double-bitted axe argent within a bordure counterchanged., is hereby released.

Submitted as Mathgamain O'Nial, this mixes Gaelic and English orthographies in the same name. We have put the patronymic into Gaelic.

Submitted as Osyth Lyde, the Old English spelling of the byname would be Hlyde. We have corrected this, per the submitter's request.

The former Order name Order of the Iron Hart of the Outlands, is hereby released.

Submitted as Order of the Sharparrow, Sharparrow was documented as a period name. Therefore, either the inappropriate the needed to eliminated, or sharparrow split into two words. We have made the name match the documentation by eliminating the inappropriate the.

The former Order name Order of the Stag of the Outlands, is hereby released.

Submitted as Skameika Draikova, this combined a masculine given name with a feminine patronymic byname. Since Russian does not combine names in this fashion, we have changed the patronymic to the masculine form.

Submitted as Vladimir Igorevich Ogromnyi, according to the LoI Ogromnyi is a word that means, "huge, large, big, and vast." While it does mean that, in period Russian used Bol'shoi to describe people in that way. Since the submitter will not accept Bol'shoi, we have eliminated the inappropriate usage.

This is a more correct blazon of what is used, rather than the already protected Argent, a cross bleu-celeste., which is hereby released.

These are the arms born by Katherine Roel, better known by the name she bore during her first marriage, Katharine Swynford. Katherine was the morganatic wife of the Duke of Gaunt and it was from this marriage that the Beaufort Earls and Dukes of Somerset descended. Ultimately, this line provided legitimacy to the somewhat dubious claims of the Tudor line through the marriage of Margaret Beaufort to Edmund Tudor. Note that Katherine’s father was Sir Giles Roel or Roelt, a Flemish knight who served as Guienne King of Arms for Aquitaine in the fourteenth century and these arms appear in many period heraldic rolls.

Alfred of Greyvale. Device. Sable, on a chevron argent between a sword fesswise and a triple-towered castle Or, three flames gules.

Alfred of Greyvale. Badge. Azure semy of mascles, two chevronels braced Or, overall an orle argent.

Anne Fenton of Colchester. Name.

Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Device. Sable, a griffin segreant and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys sable.

Nice armory!

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn this is neither field a chief, nor per fess.

This conflicts with Gillian Starke of Aberdeen Argent, a wolf rampant azure maintaining a gillyflower azure slipped and leaved vert, a bordure vert. There is but one CD for the bordure.

This conflicts with Greyes Oddson Per pale vert and argent, a paw print counterchanged. There is just one CD for number of charges.

This is being returned for lack of documentation for the given name. The LoI tried to construct Damietta as an Italian variant of the French name Damia. While they did show examples of the formation of Italian names ending -etta from names ending -ia, no evidence was shown that Damia was a given name in Italy. This is relevant since Damietta is in fact a well-known geographic name, used both for a branch of the Nile and for an ancient town on that branch almost a hundred miles north of Cairo. Therefore, barring documentation of Damia as a period given name in Italy, we are forced to return this name.

This is being returned for a redraw. The charge on the bordure is not really blazonable. It is not clearly a vine or a semy of ivy leaves.

This is being returned for a redraw. The primary charge is not clearly a seal, or any other charge.

This is being returned for the use of an out of period given name. Fionualla is a modern, post-reform spelling of Fionnghuala (see O'Corrain & Maguire p.103). The submitted spelling would not have been used before the 20th century. Strictly speaking ní Chába is not a feminine equivalent of Mac Cába -- it would be the equivalent of ó Cába which is unattested. If Mac Cába was actually being used as a hereditary family surname by Gaelic-speaking people, this is a case where the feminine equivalent would be inghean mhic Chába (modernly shortened to nic Chába).

This conflicts with Aquitaine Gules, a lion passant gardant Or. There is only one CD for changing the number of primary charges. The difference in type of less than one half of the charges is not worth a CD, nor is the addition of the leash.

The name is being returned for lack of documentation on the given name. No documentation was presented to show that Liesl is a period given name and none could be found. Barring such documentation the name must be returned.

The armory was registered under the holding name Elizabeth von Katzenheim.

This is being returned for a redraw. The "rose" is not clearly a rose; it is closest to a cabbage, though not clearly a cabbage either.

While blazoned on the LoI as (Fieldless) Between a pair of wings argent a sword proper blade enflamed gules., we have reblazoned to more accurately reflect the emblazon, as "Period enflamed has a few gouttes of flame scattered around the edge of the charge being enflamed. Where the flame completely surrounds an object, that object is said to be 'on a flame.'" (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR May 1992, p. 26). "We don't permit flaming fimbriation in Society armory." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, 24 July 1993 Cover Letter (with the June 1993 LoAR), pp. 5-6).

This means that this must be returned for violating our rules on overall charges in fieldless badges. They are only permitted where the area of intersection is small, which is not the case in this instance.

This conflicts with Helmut zu Jülich Quarterly gules and Or, a lion rampant contourny within a bordure sable., As drawn there is no visual difference between the wingless griffin and the lion.

To quote the LoAR of 9/93, which deals with this issue of a submitter’s S.C.A. name vs. the mundane name,"This submission raised the question of how much difference is needed between the SCA and mundane names. In the LoAR of November 1992, I returned us to our previous standard of non-identity: `The minimum change (the one regarded as a loophole by liberals and conservatives alike) is probably the addition or deletion of a single syllable (e.g. John Smith to John the Smith).' [LoAR of April 1985]. Any changes smaller than a single syllable may not be sufficient; they must be argued case by case." David de Robertson should thus be clear of his mundane use name David Robertson, or his stated full mundane name David Lee Robertson.

Unfortunately, the de does not make sense before a patronym like Robertson. (David of son of Robert?) Removing the de would make the name close to a presumed use name" of David Robertson. As per the LoAR of 1/92 p.19 we check for conflict against all reasonable permutations of the legal name: It may not be the name she commonly uses, but it is legally available to her to be used at any time, and is therefore (one of her) legal name(s)." Dropping a middle name is a very standard permutation of a legal name to form a legal use name. Thus, we must conclude that even though his mundane name is David Lee Robertson, he would have David Robertson as a legal name as well, and thus the S.C.A. name David Robertson would conflict.

The proposed Daibhidh de MacRaibeirt also suffers from a grammatically nonfunctional de. The de will have to be removed here, as well. Daibhidh MacRaibeirt should be clear of any of the mundane use names, as we have had a significant sound change in the byname.

Another possibility would be to use Roberton which is a locative surname. Black cites Steven de Roberton from 1296, John de Robertun from 1390, Stephen de Roberton from 1408, John de Robertoun from 1440. David de Roberton would be a registerable form.

Since we do not wish to choose for the submitter which option to take, we are returning this so he can choose.

This was an appeal of a September 1997 return for using Lorraine, which is a locative, as a given name. The appeal says:

Unfortunately, the submitter is mistaken. A matronym may not (indeed, it often does not) take the same form as the given name from which it is derived. Indeed, Lorraine may very well be a matronym derived from the given name Lora or something very similar. That would make Lora an acceptable given name, but not Lorraine. Furthermore, Hanks and Hodges state that Lorraine as a given is a transferred usage from the locative surname and that it did not come into use until the nineteenth century even in Scotland where Lorrain in various forms was popular as a surname from the twelfth century on. Barring documentation that Lorraine was actually used as a given name in period, it must be returned.

The armory is being returned for using two different complex lines of division: indented and fleury. Such have been disallowed in the past:

This conflicts with Conrad von Hammerbourg, Per chevron rayonny sable and gules, in base a catamount herissony proper., with one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for position against a fieldless badge, and nothing for the minor change in position.

This conflicts with Launcelot de Westwood Azure, a cross botonny fitchy Or., with one for fieldlessness, but nothing for type since the fitching of the cross is worth nothing and this cross is about halfway between a cross-crosslet and a cross bottony, which itself is actually just a fossilized difference in blazon for poorly drawn examples of the cross crosslet. If an ankhs was used in period armory we might have ruled differently, but since it is not a period charge, it loses the benefit of the doubt.

This is being returned for violating RfS VII.7.b by being in an unblazonable position. The submitted blazon does not accurately reproduce this emblazon, and no one in the college was able to come up with an acceptable blazon that could.

This is a resubmission of the same device which was returned November 1997 for a redraw because the horse's skull was unidentifiable. Unfortunately, it was the overwhelming conclusion of both the college and the people attending the roadshow where this was discussed that this is still unidentifiable, carefully drawn as it is. This compels us to the conclusion that the horse’s skull does not have such clearly distinguishing features as to make it acceptably identifiable for heraldic use. The human skull used in Society and mundane heraldry is a clearly defined charge as immediately identifiable as a bend or a sword. (Consider how instantly children who have never taken an anatomy course identify it at Halloween!) The Society has extended definitions of skulls to certain beasts where there are secondary characteristics that clearly identify the type of head whence the skull derived. For instance, the ram’s skull is identified by its distinctive horns, as are the elk’s skull, the bull’s skull, the deer’s skull, etc. The few exceptions to that rule occurred almost twenty years ago, before standards for identifiability were so clearly defined. Even so, the major exception, the wolf’s skull registered to Vargskol Halfblood passed in the confusion of the great Heraldicon of 1979, the source of many of the most solecistic items we see in the Armorial today. In judging this, we have to ask what features uniquely identify a horse’s head from any other head and ask how clearly those transfer when the soft tissue is removed. Unfortunately, almost all of the features, except the length of the upper jaw, disappear entirely when head becomes skull. Therefore, the skull is not identifiable.

This is a resubmission of the same badge which was returned November 1997 for a redraw because the horse's skull was unidentifiable. Unfortunately, it was the overwhelming conclusion of both the college and the people attending the roadshow where this was discussed that this is still unidentifiable, carefully drawn as it is. This compels us to the conclusion that the horse’s skull does not have such clearly distinguishing features as to make it acceptably identifiable for heraldic use. The human skull used in Society and mundane heraldry is a clearly defined charge as immediately identifiable as a bend or a sword. (Consider how instantly children who have never taken an anatomy course identify it at Halloween!) The Society has extended definitions of skulls to certain beasts where there are secondary characteristics that clearly identify the type of head whence the skull derived. For instance, the ram’s skull is identified by its distinctive horns, as are the elk’s skull, the bull’s skull, the deer’s skull, etc. The few exceptions to that rule occurred almost twenty years ago, before standards for identifiability were so clearly defined. Even so, the major exception, the wolf’s skull registered to Vargskol Halfblood passed in the confusion of the great Heraldicon of 1979, the source of many of the most solecistic items we see in the Armorial today. In judging this, we have to ask what features uniquely identify a horse’s head from any other head and ask how clearly those transfer when the soft tissue is removed. Unfortunately, almost all of the features, except the length of the upper jaw, disappear entirely when head becomes skull. Therefore, the skull is not identifiable.

This conflicts with Anne of the White Tower Sable, a tower argent., as cited on the LoI. It was not unusual for barry or paly fields in period to be drawn with an odd number of traits (which we'd blazon as bars or palets); see, for example, the arms of Mouton (Multon, Moleton) found both as Barry argent and gules and Argent, three bars gules (;;;DBA, pp 59, 88; Foster, p. 145). The same thing is found in the arms of von Rosenberg, whose Per fess field has in base either three bends or bendy depending upon the artist's whim (Siebmacher, p. 8; Neubecker and Rentzmann, p. 290). Even when the distinction is worth blazoning, it's worth no difference.

This conflicts with Ailith of Sarum Per bend azure and vert, a bend between a cross crosslet and a sprig argent., with only one CD for the type of secondaries.

This conflicts with Sherry Foxwell (Fieldless) A fox herissony to sinister gules., as cited on the LoI. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the slight change in posture.

While blazoned on the LoI as a cross formy rounded, there is no such cross. One commentor suggested that this be reblazoned as a cross alisée. The cross alisée is a roundel with four narrow wedges, with straight sides, in saltire cut not quite to the center. In this proposed design the ‘cross’ has four wedges, with slightly curved sides, in saltire cut not quite to the center. This is neither a cross formy not a cross alisée, but a hybrid of the two.

However, a cross looking like the one submitted above has been submitted before, though not by the same person, during the tenure of Master Bruce as Laurel. At that time he said.

Since no evidence has been presented for this cross, we see no reason to overturn this precedent.

This is being returned for a redraw. While the bend was emblazoned as embowed-counterembowed, the embowing was so slight to be barely seen. The embowing must be drawn more boldly.

This conflicts with Karl Adler der Reisender Lozengy gules and Or, on a pale sable, a dexter gauntlet appaumy argent., which gets a CD for the field but nothing for tincture only of the tertiary (the clenching is an artistic detail which does not contribute difference).

As this is not simple armory by the standards of RFS X.2 (there are three different types of charge on the field), it is in conflict with Morgan of Lorraine Vert, in pale a mullet of eight points Or and a sword proper, a bordure dovetailed Or. There is only a CD for the (admittedly substantial) difference in the primary charges.

Even if there had not been a conflict we would have returned this for a redraw, as the primary charges as drawn were not recognizable.

This conflicts with Janusch der Wasserman Azure maily Or, a unicorn salient argent., registered January, 1998. There is a CD for the field, but Cristeane's unicorn's placement is forced by the field, and therefore gives no difference.

This conflicts with The Emperor of Japan Dark, a sixteen petaled chrysanthemum, light. In September, 1996 Laurel returned A gillyflower quarterly gules and azure., for conflict with the Emperor of Japan, therefore by precedent there is not a CD between the two flowers. Also by precedent there is not a CD for slipping the flower.

This is being returned because while the LoI stated the given name is registered, it is not registered, and every submission is registered to an SCA name. Furthermore, no funds have been received for a name submission. Note: this name is not registerable because it conflicts with Lizzie/Lizbeth Borden of Massachusetts, who was accused (but acquitted) of killing her mother and father with an axe.

This conflicts with the flag of Finland Argent, a cross a azure., with one CD for adding the complex line of division to the cross.

This eagle is twisted into a posture which is neither striking (which should have the body angled upwards with the head and feet reaching down) nor stooping (diving downwards), but somewhere in between (literally: it appears to be just pulling out of its dive and starting to rotate its feet to grab the prey, but hasn't completed the motion.) This blurs the distinction between two things considered a CD apart. The specific posture of this bird cannot adequately be described by any standard blazonry term.

This conflicts with the badge of Katherine Roel, added to our protected list this month, who was better known by the name she bore during her first marriage, Katharine Swynford.

This was pended from the January 1998 LoAR.

This is being returned for violating RfS VIIII.2.a, which deals with the rules of tincture, by having a color charge on a color field.

This is a resubmission of a return August 1997 for a redraw and conflict. While the submitter has redraw the submission which eliminated one problem, and added a peripheral, which has eliminated the conflict, however, since his new drawing is not the same as the old one, new problems have been introduced.

First, the design requires that the mascles be of different sizes, which violates our rules. Second, a design must be able to be recreated by a competent herald from the blazon alone, and the emblazon must be subject to adequate blazoning. This design does not satisfy that requirement.

Since no miniature was included on the LoI, this must be returned for violating V.B.2.e of the Administrative Handbook.

This device has two problems, either of which, in and of itself, is grounds for return. First, this is an invented field division, based on the model of flory-counterflory. Unfortunately we have been able to find but a single example of flory-counterflory being used in period armory. A line of division based on an exemplar that was used but a single time in period armory, is too far from period practice to be registered in the SCA.

Secondly, this submission is being returned for unidentifiability. The line of division is unidentifiable from any distance.

This is being returned for lack of a documentable given name. While the LoI tried to construct Dyddanwy from Harpy's articles on constructing Welsh names, you cannot just randomly take one from column A and one from column B and come up with a valid Welsh given name.

This is an aural conflict with Eleanor de Wardon. The armory was registered under the holding name Eleanor of the Inner Sea.

While blazoned in the above manner on the LoI, with the outer edges of the line of division meeting the sides of the shield above the fess line, this is Argent, chapé ployé azure..." However, that means that the chapé is charged, which is not allowed.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork. No device form was included in the packet.

This conflicts with Ruben ben Yosef the Khazar Argent, a catamount courant sable, on a chief azure, three stars of David Or., and Cerdic MacAoidh Argent, an ounce rampant queue forchy sable spotted Or on a chief azure three increscents Or., with a CD for the posture of the feline, but the unlike tertiaries on this submission disqualify it from RFS X.4.j.ii.

This is being returned for lack of documentation on the name. All documentation that does not come from Laurel’s approved ‘no-photocopy list’ must include the title page of the book, the reverse of the title page (including title, author and publisher), and the page the name is found on. If the documentation comes from the Laurel website, the URL must be printed on each page of the documentation. The armory was registered under the holding name Nikodemus of Hawkland Moor.

This conflicts with Lorelei of Lockehaven Per pale azure and Or, a candle argent, sconced sable, enflamed proper, fimbriated counterchanged. The candlestick is less than half the charge in both cases, in which case its tincture gives no CD. Fimbriation also contributes nothing, so the field CD is the only one.

This conflicts with House of Este Azure, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or., Poland Gules, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or., and Vladimir ap Gwynne Counter-ermine, an eagle displayed argent, armed Or, clutching a wild rose proper. Each gets just a single CD for the field and nothing for the held charges and other artistic details.

As drawn, this conflicts with Darcy Graham, Argent, an otter (lutra lutra) erect guardant proper, maintaining an escallop inverted gules., with a CD for the dolmen, but nothing for the difference between a beaver and an otter or for the maintained charges.

This is not "bevilled" as discussed (at length) by Laurel in the August 1992 LOAR. While the line of fracture is properly vertical, the examples cited by Laurel show the lower portion being elevated, rather than the upper one as in this submission. Unless period evidence (and a name) for this particular shift is obtained, this must be returned.

This is being returned for not using a heraldic tincture. While blazoned on the LoAR as gules, in fact orange was used, which is not the same as gules. While not, per say, grounds for return, please use yellow and not gold for Or.

This conflicts with Wolfangus MhicMarighdhin Azure, a wolf sejant erect affronty, forepaws spread in fess, argent, maintaining a basket-hilted broadsword and a targe Or. There is one CD for the field, but nothing for the held charges or between the two canines.

This is being returned for a redraw. The chevronels are draw so small that they are effectively peripherals, and not true primaries, which is what they should be.

While blazoned on the LoI as (Fieldless) On a heart gules, a hare salient contourny argent., since a heart is considered standard shape for armorial display, the submission is considered as Gules, a hare salient contourny argent. As such it conflicts with Enid Aurelia of the Tin Isles Gules, a hare salient to sinister argent within a delf voided and fracted in cross Or., with one CD for the addition of the delf.

This is being returned for multiple problems with the name. To quote from al-Jamal's letter of comment:

Based on this commentary from al-Jamal, we must return this name for major reworking.

The armory was registered under the holding name Leopoldo of Tree Girt Sea.

This is being returned for conflict with Thomas Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster 1277-1322 and grandson of Henry III. Since he has his own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, he is considered important enough to protect.

The patronymic as submitted was spelled Grimsdóttir, with an accent over the o. However, the standard Norse patronymic would be Grímsdóttir with accents over the i and the o. The standard English representation would be Grimsdottir with no accents. Therefore, either an accent needs to be added to the i, or the one over the o needs to be eliminated. Since the client permits no changes, we are forced to return this name.

This was an appeal of a Laurel return of 12/95. In the return Laurel stated:

The appeal says:

The main point behind the appeal is whether or not charges previously announced as unacceptable would be allowed a final registration. The submitter and the CoH of the Middle contend that they are.

Unfortunately, while it is, in our opinion, a good thing to allow a charge a final registration, Laurel is not bound by that practice. As we stated to the College before we became Laurel, appeals must show evidence that Laurel's decision was wrong, not just that the person disagreed with Laurel's decision. In this case, there is no evidence that Laurel's decision was wrong, since the return was made within Laurel's purview.

Furthermore, even if Laurel had not been within his rights to return a submission without previous notice, in fact previous notice had been given. The Lisbjerg gripping beast is actually just a variety of the Borre-style gripping beasts which were banned in 11/86, and therefore the Lisbjerg gripping beasts were banned at the same time.

Finally, after the October 1998 Laurel meeting we will no longer register zoomorphic beasts of any kind.

While we register brown beasts proper if the animal is found naturally brown, such as a brown rabbit, or a brown hound, this is not a beast, but rather a monster, because of the wings and halo. Since monsters do not have proper coloration, they cannot be brown. Note: while blazoned on the LoI as an ox, the monster was clearly a bull, and not an ox.

Withdrawn by submitter.

The name is being returned for non-period style. As stated in the return for the Order name of Desert Flower of the Outlands "... problem is that the OED has no example of this kind of attributive use of desert earlier than 1750. Without evidence for the period use of desert as a modifier meaning `found in or associated with the desert' the name must be returned." This name is being returned for the same reason.

This conflicts with Mikhaela Straif Gyronny of six vert and argent, a sun within a bordure rayonny Or. There is a CD for the changes to the field, but nothing for the difference between a sun and a multi-pointed mullet.

This is being returned for violating RfS XI.3 on marshalling. Charges on either side of a per pale line of division must be the same to avoid the appearance of impaled arms.

No evidence was presented, and none could be found for Volker as a given name. Absence such documentation the name must be returned.

The name and device were sent out of kingdom on a January 1998 LoI from Caid. In March 1998 the name Anne de Vere of Brittany, was sent out of kingdom on a Caid LoI. The submitter is the same person. She prefers the name Anne de Vere of Brittany. Therefore, we are pending the name and device decision until the July 1998 meeting, where the paperwork can be sorted out.