Submitted as Ruadhan O'Faoláin, the LoI misspelled O'Faoláin by using a O' instead of Ó. We have corrected this.

A possible conflict was called against Grik Alfriksson Sable, a natural panther's head couped between three compass stars argent., Lukas von Reaumer Sable, a unicorn's head couped between three mullets of seven points argent., and Tezar of Aeolis Sable, a winged lion courant to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, between three mullets of four straight and four wavy points argent. There is one CD for difference of primary charge. For stonework charges, masoning is considered an artistic detail not worth difference (August 1992 LOAR, p.31), so there is nothing for tincture. There is no difference between suns and many-pointed mullets by precedent of long standing. The use of unlike secondaries disqualifies this submission from the use of RFS X.2. The precedent allowing difference for the lowermost of three charges arranged two and one requires that they either be alone on the field or around an ordinary; since a wall is really a fess embattled, the necessary second CD comes from changing the type of the bottommost of three charges.

Submitted as Daor Dr islav the Procrastinator, the LoI asserted that Daor was Croatian for David. No documentation was presented for this, and none could be found. Therefore, barring documentation that Daor was a period given name, it cannot be used. We have substituted David. No documentation was presented for the Procrastinator being a period Croatian byname, or for it being period English usage. Therefore, we have dropped it.

His former name Einar of Wealhhnutu, is hereby released.

Submitted as Eoghan MacFhearguis of Dunfallandy, this combines the name of the clan with the clan seat which is presumptuous. We have removed the placename in order to register the name.

Please inform the submitter using de instead of using of would be much better.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the horse larger.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the panther larger.

His former device Argent, a spiderweb sable, on a chief purpure a scorpion passant argent. is hereby released.

His former name Hawkin Sinclair, is hereby released.

This is to be associated with (Fieldless) A phoenix Or rising from flames proper atop a tower argent., which was registered June 1998.

Amalric von Regensburg. Device. Azure, a lion rampant regardant maintaining in its sinister forepaw a sword inverted Or, on a chief indented argent three crosses formy sable.

Blazoned of the LoI as crosses formy recerclee, we are treating this as an unblazoned variant of formy.

The device was pended from the May 1998 LoAR.

She has received a letter of permission to conflict from Ianthus of Scara Ermine, a cog wheel gules.

Submitted as Fionnghuala MacGriogair, the byname has been modified to match the gender of the given name and put into the genitive.

Submitted as Rhael Anedd Dal Riata, this combines Welsh and Gaelic in the same name. Since Gaelic wasn't combined with other Welsh in period, we have dropped the Gaelic elements in order to register the name.

Against Arian Rhyindelas of Aldalome Argent, a six-headed, double-tailed, wingless hydra statant to sinister sable., we are granting a CD based on the precedent below:

Her former name Anastasia NicKay is hereby released.

Please instruct the group on how to properly draw a laurel wreath.

Submitted as Grigorii Borislav Kuropatva Syn, according to Escutcheon syn should be in lower case. We have made the appropriate correction.

Submitted as Miguel Navas de Majorca no acceptable documentation was provided for Navas and none could be found. We have dropped Navas in order to register the name.

Nice armory!

His former name Duncan Greifenklau is hereby released.

Submitted as Axel Jager van die Reebok, the correct form of Axel Rosebuck Hunter, according to Schwartzdrachen, who is a native Dutch speaker, is Axel Reebocjager.

This device conflicts with the badge of Pendar the Bard (Fieldless) A musimon rampant contourny argent armed Or maintaining a lyre sable., registered on this LoAR. However, he has kindly provided a letter of permission to conflict.

Note: by Laurel policy put in place under direction of the Board of Directors, if two submissions that are being judged in the same month conflict, if one person is a paid member and the other is not, the paid member's submission will be registered. If however both submissions are for people with the same membership status, it reverts to Laurel office policy, which gives priority to the letter with the earlier date. Since they both have the same membership status, but Pendar's submission was on an earlier letter, he got the registration.

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

Submitted as Alewyn av Catmere, av does not match the language of Catmere. Therefore we have dropped it.

Submitted on the LoI as above, it was corrected in April by the submissions herald on the April LoI to Caitlin de Ramsaidh. However, that combines Gaelic and English in the same name which we don't do. Therefore, we have returned it to the originally submitted form.

Submitted as Disa Egilsdottir, the only documentation presented for the given name was for Dis, which is a Norse female name. Since there was no documentation for Disa and none could be found, we have changed it to the documentable form.

Her former name Ginevra Bagnesi is hereby released.

Note: while this conflicts with Alyanora of Vinca Argent, a periwinkle (vinca minor) proper., since Jennet's previously registered device Argent, a violet purpure slipped and leaved vert between flaunches purpure. also conflicts to the same degree, she gets this badge courtesy of the grandfather clause. The Grandfather Clause applies to conflict, as well as stylistic problems; the badge conflicts no more (and no less) than the device, and if Jennet may display the latter, it would be unreasonable to tell her she may not display the former.

Submitted as Keyna nic Aherne, this is an Anglicized name which incorporates the patronymic element into the byname. Therefore, we have dropped the inappropriate nic.

Note: while the use of Maire is rare in period Gaelic names, there are a few dated examples.

Normally we would blazon these ravens as birds, but we are using the term raven for the sake of the cant. Please instruct the submitter in how to draw a raven.

His previous name Talan MacAirt is hereby released.

Submitted as Téarlach Donnachaidh, Gaelic does not use unmarked patronymics. Therefore we have put the byname into the patronymic form.

Submitted as István of Vukovar, the client requested that the name be corrected for the indicated language. The following documentation was provided by Walraven van Nijmegen:

We have corrected the locative to the form closest to the form submitted.

His former device Argent, a turtle and on a chief sable three turtles argent. is hereby released.

His former name Tormod the Red is hereby released.

Submitted as Valamer zum schwarz Fuchs, the preposition "zu" takes the dative case for the noun and any adjectives in its propositional phrase. Additionally, the adjective, definite article, and preposition are concatenated together, to schwarzem.

His previous registered arms Sable, a compass star elongated to base quarterly argent and Or supported by two lions queue forchy combatant, that to dexter argent and that to sinister Or. is hereby released.

Her former name Eirianedd o Randir Mwyn is to be retained as an alternate name.

Registered on the June 1998 LoAR as Catelin Mackinsagart, it was corrected on the March LoI to Catelin Mactaggart.

Daniel is the legal son of Theo of Mightrinwood whose name was registered in 1979. Theo of Mightrinwood died in October 1997. Normally we would not register a name of this form, since it is a violation of VI.3 begins, "Names that unmistakably imply ... close relationship to a protected person ... will generally not be registered." However, based on prior instances of allowing the legal heir to grant permission to conflict or releasing submissions, we will register this, since Daniel is Theo's legal son and heir.

This is being returned for a redraw. It is not clearly Per pall... or Per pale... a chief triangular, but something halfway between. Additionally, this is not period style with its total lack of balance.

The name is being returned for nonperiod style. Possible models for household names include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart). This does not follow any period exemplars, and barring documentation must be returned. The device conflicts with Philippa Grey Lozengy argent and purpure, a griffin sejant, dexter foreleg raised, wings elevated and addorsed, sable. While normally we would give a difference between the two monsters, the addition of the nonstandard wings makes them too visually similar to grant any difference.

This conflicts with Cormacc na Connacht Azure, on a pale argent a sword inverted gules., Barony of Illiton Azure, on a pale argent a mermaid erect affronty proper scaled Or crined vert maintaining in her right hand a trident bendwise sinister and in her left and upraised hand a grey tower proper and in base a laurel wreath vert, and Guatemala Azure, on a pale argent a wreath vert surmounted by two rifles bayonets fixed surmounted in base by two sabres in saltire proper all surmounted by an open scroll palewise argent charged with the words LIBRETAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 Or and perched thereon a quetzal bird vert bellied gules. In each case there is just a single CD for changes to the tertiaries.

This is being returned for breaking our rule on slot machine by having three different types of charges (tree, tree stump and claymore) in one group.

This is being returned for a redraw. The fimbriation is so narrow in some places as to be totally invisible.

While the LoI stated that he has received permission to conflict with the Barony of Adiantum's badge for the Collar and Chain Gules, a two-headed bear statant erect affronty, forelegs raised, heads addorsed Or collared and chained sable., it was not in writing and therefore is not acceptable. Please remember the motto of the CoA, Non scripta non est. If you do not have the permission, in writing, do not send out the conflicting submission.

While the submitter documents the terms Woode Pyle as a period term, there is no documentation that it was used in a name. Since there is no reason to think that name were formed from places of this sort, barring documentation this will have to be returned.

This conflicts with the Barony of Wintersgate's Order of the Gilded Lily, as cited on the LoI, Sable, a lily blossom Or. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for adding the slipping and leaving.

This conflicts with Lucius Mandefort Sable, in cross three compass-stars and a brazier enflamed to chief Or. There is a CD for the field, but nothing for changing the type of one charge in a group of four suns and nothing for the difference between suns and compass stars.

No paperwork was received for the device submission.

No documentation was presented for dreidels being a period charge and none could be found. Laurel herself went through her extensive collection of Judicia and could find no period documentation for them. Barring period documentation of dreidels or tops of this form, this must be returned.

This is being returned for use of a non-heraldic tincture. While the roundels were blazoned as gules, they are really orange, which we don't use.

This was an appeal of a kingdom return for conflict with the princely Haus Jülich. The submitter has provided documentation showing that Jülich is a town in Germany first mentioned in 356 C.E. While Jülich is also a town, that is not relevant in terms of conflict. Existence of other uses of Jülich does not clear conflict. The existence of York does not mean that we would register House York. Therefore this must be returned.

Gwalchmai ap Llywellyn Llanfyllin. Device. Argent, a bend sinister wreathed sable and gules.

This is being returned for running afoul of our contrast requirements. We require that charges which are "wreathed" to have good contrast between their parts. "A wreathed ordinary must be of two tinctures with good contrast." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR September 1992, p. 43) "The basis for the limitation on wreathing of two tinctures of the same category is the reduction of identifiability that ensues." (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR August 1988, p. 17).

This conflicts with Aleksandr Morekhodov Azure, a chevron embattled Or between two compass stars elongated to base argent and a sea-dragon erect contourny Or., There is only one CD for adding the secondaries.

This conflicts with Ciaran of Beresruth, Barry indented of eight argent and vert, a bezant within a bordure Or. There is only one CD for the change of field.

This is being returned for using double given names in Gaelic. To date no documentation has been presented for its use in Gaelic, and barring such documentation we cannot register such names. Since the submitter will only take minor change we cannot just delete Dubhghall in order to register the name.

This conflicts with Jonathan Thorne, registered September 1994.

This is being returned for a redraw. The bird is not clearly volant to sinister or volant bendwise sinister, but something halfway between.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the cross is barely overall, a motif which has been ground for returns for a number of years.

This submissions suffers from several problems. First this violates RfS XI.3 "Armory that appears to marshall independent arms is considered presumptuous." Since there are charges in all four quarters of the field, and the charges in the four quarters are not identical, this has the appearance of being a marshalled display of Argent a dolphin haurient azure and Argent goutty de larmes, with the cross overall to mark the edges of the various quarters.

In addition, having a divided field of the same tincture, but with two sections having dissimilar semy charges, is grounds for return as well.

This is being returned for violating RfS VIII.4.b. "Overt allusions to modern insignia, trademarks, or common designs may not be registered.". While Laurel herself had no idea what Mortal Kombat was prior to this submission, six members of the College of Arms and virtually everyone present at the Laurel meeting, plus two of Laurel's housemates all instantly said Mortal Kombat when seeing this. Therefore, this must be returned.

This is being returned for using a star cross. The 'star cross' is an SCA invention. It's supposed to have been an ancient Christian symbol formed from the Greek letters IX (iota-chi), the monogram for Jesus Christ. In modern times, it has become the symbol of emergency medical care...." (Pictorial Dictionary, 2nd ed., #215) It has only one prior registration in the SCA, and has since been banned by Laurel precedent: "The fact remains that six armed crosses are not a period charge." (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR December 1993, p.10)

This is being returned for a redraw. The per chevron line should be higher on the field; as drawn it is halfway between Per chevron... and Field, a point pointed.... The low-contrast complex line should be much bolder to show up well (half as many and twice as big at a minimum). The wolf should be larger; as drawn it conflicts with Rupert Fairchilde MacChlurain, Per fess sable mullety argent and vert, a pheon argent., as the wolf is clearly a minority member of a group of primary charges).

The name is being returned for nonperiod style. Possible models for household names include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart). This does not follow any period exemplars, and barring documentation must be returned.

His name was submitted on the January 1998 An Tir LoI which will not be judged until August because of the delay in receipt of paperwork. Without an SCA name to register this device, it must be pended.

While emblazoned as above, it was blazoned on the LoI as Per pall inverted gules, azure, and Or, two bunches of grapes Or and a chalice sable.

Possible conflicts were called between this and William de Rouen Per pale argent and Or, a cross crosslet fitchy gules., and Petros Monomachos, (Fieldless), A cross doubly pommeled gules. While we are willing to grant difference between this cross and those, conflict was also called between this, the badge of the Order of Santiago, (Fieldless) A cross of Santiago gules and the badge of the Order of Calatrava, (Fieldless) A cross of Calatrava gules. These two orders, which are both still in existence to this day, were among the premier monastic-military orders on the Iberian peninsula during the Moorish period. Since the cross of Calatrava is visually a cross fleury, since the cross of Santiago is visually a cross fleury fitchy, and since the SCA does not allow a CD between a cross [x] and a cross [x] fitchy, this badge conflicts with these two orders, if their armory is entitled to protection. Please let me know your opinions as to whether these badges should be protected, and if you think they should be protected, any other order badges such as the Order of the Elephant (Denmark) that you feel should be protected.