Below are the results of the July 2003 Letter of Acceptance and Return from the Laurel King of Arms. This website is not authoritative, but is an accurate reproduction of the text of the July LoAR.

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Cover Letter (summaries)

From Wreath: Clarification and Explication of Some Rulings on Posture

Wreath clarified some rulings on "posture" - which may apply both to animate charges "(like a lion rampant)...(like a snail bendwise...)" and to inanimate charges "(...a sword palewise)."

" Orientation" generally refers to "postures" that are along the ordinaries (palewise, bendwise sinister, etc.) or to items that have been "inverted" or "reversed." So, a sword may be said to be in a palewise posture or in a palewise orientation, and both statements are equally correct.

" After consideration of the many cases on which we have had to rule (some of which, we admit, we handled without writing express precedents on the issue), we adopted the following policy: Quadrupeds, insects, birds, and heads do not have comparable postures, because of the very different sorts of postures these charges hold in heraldry. When two types of charge do not have comparable postures, we do not give posture difference between them. This lack of posture difference applies to all the possible postures the charges might take. Because a quadruped is not comparable to a insect, bird, or animal head, a lion rampant is given no posture difference from a bee tergiant, a raven close contourny, or a lion's head bendwise couped."

" That being said, we continue to uphold the ruling by Elsbeth Laurel which noted that, even though two types of charge may not have comparable postures, two groups of charges may be comparable for purposes of determining whether the groups are facing in the same direction, or are respectant/addorsed. Please see the ruling on the device of Bran mac Conchobair in the May 2003 LoAR for more discussion of this issue. The short relevant excerpt from that ruling reads:

We do allow meaningful posture difference between groups of charges which would otherwise not have comparable postures when the following conditions apply:

So, while it is is not possible to compare the posture of a bird and a cat, it is possible to compare the posture of two cats rampant addorsed versus two doves close, and see that the cats are facing in opposite directions and the doves are facing in the same direction."

From Pelican: Regarding SCA-Compatible Status of Forms of the Name "Megan"

Issues were raised this month regarding the SCA-compatible status of forms of the name Megan. There are two significant factors that come into play when judging whether or not a name should be considered SCA compatible: number of registrations and continual popularity. SCA-compatible names that fall out of popularity may have their SCA-compatible status discontinued.

As of the February 2004 decision meeting:

From Pelican: Regarding SCA-Compatible Status of the Name "Kendra"

"Given the lack of popularity of this name, we will discontinue registration of Kendra with the February 2004 decision meeting."

(summaries of Cover Letter items provided by Sorcha Weel)

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Errata

Louis-Philippe Mitouard. Name correction from Louis-Philippe Mitourard.
The name was listed on the LoAR as Louis-Philippe Mitourard, but both the forms and the LoI show Louis-Philippe Mitouard.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Order of the Golden Pheon.
The LoAR failed to note the order name registration when the associated badge was registered. This order name is associated with the already registered badge Vert, a pheon inverted environed of a stag's attire, all within a bordure embattled Or.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Award of the Protector of the Queen's Heart.
The LoAR noted failed to note the order name registration when the associated badge was registered. This order name is associated with the already registered badge Vert, two rapiers inverted proper, overall a heart, all within a bordure embattled Or.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Order of the Trefoil.
The LoAR noted failed to note the order name registration when the associated badge was registered. This order name is associated with the already registered badge Vert, a trefoil slipped argent within a bordure embattled Or.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Order of the Venerable Guard.
The LoAR noted failed to note the order name registration when the associated badge was registered. This order name is associated with the already registered badge Vert, a sheaf of three swords inverted proper surmounted by a rose, all within a bordure embattled Or.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Order of the White Scarf of the Outlands.
The LoAR noted failed to note the order name registration when the associated badge was registered. This order name is associated with the already registered badge Sable, on a pale argent between two rapiers proper, a stag's antler vert.
Iric Iulian of Black Elk. Name correction from Irik Julian of Black Elk.
In registering his device, the LoAR misspelled his name as Irik Julian of Black Elk. His name was registered as Iric Iulian of Black Elk in January 1990.

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Acceptances

Áine Dorcha ingen Rónáin. Name.
al-Barran, Barony of. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Scorpion Pursuivant from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Alia Marie de Blois. Badge. (Fieldless) A mullet of eight points gyronny purpure and argent.
This does not conflict with Almarek of the Dunedain, Ermine, a mullet of four points gyronny argent and purpure. There is one CD for fieldlessness. There is a second CD between a mullet of eight points and a mullet of four points. Note that this is a different case from the comparison of a compass star with a mullet of four points. Because of the unusual, and non-period, design of the compass star, with its four greater and four lesser points, a compass star conflicts both with a mullet of four points and with a mullet of eight points.
Artan macAilín. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Black Elk Herald from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Avalon Dubois. Device. Azure, a hedgehog between three clouds argent.
Cian an Mhachaire. Name.
Edmund Newcastle. Name change from Vebjorn Vegandi.
Good name!
His previous name, Vebjorn Vegandi, is retained as an alternate name.
Emery de Fittun. Name and device. Azure, a winged cat couchant guardant argent wings elevated and addorsed Or.
Good name!
Gwillim Glamorgan. Device. Quarterly gules and azure, a cross argent overall two axes in saltire Or.
Please advise the submitter to draw the cross a bit wider. In a design like this, it is understandable that the cross will be on the narrow side. If the cross were wide, the axe heads would be crowded in the space remaining around the cross. (Similarly, we expect ordinaries that are charged with charges to be wider than ordinaries that are surrounded by charges - in each case, to maximize the identifiability of all the design elements). Even given this range of depictions of ordinary widths in period armory, we would generally expect the cross to be wider in most period armory.
Juan Balthazar Tegero. Name and device. Or, a escarbuncle of chain throughout and a bordure gules.
The elements Juan and Tegero were documented as Spanish. Balthazar was documented as Flemish.
Members of the College provided information regarding the level of contact between these cultures. Specificially:
The Spanish ruled the Low Countries during the 16th century and had large numbers of troops there because of the Dutch revolt. [Nebuly]
The spelling <Balthazar> is not a Spanish spelling (the <th> wasn't and still isn't generally used); <Baltasar> is found in my Isabel article. But the Lowlands were owned by the Hapsburgs, along with Spain, so in the 16th century, there is certainly sufficient contact to justify the mix (with a weirdness). [Siren]
Given this level of contact, combining Spanish and Flemish in an SCA name is registerable, though a weirdness.
Kathryn of Iveragh. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Ardent Herald from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Konrad von Greifswald. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Escarbuncle Herald from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Louis-Philippe Mitouard. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Cat's Paw Herald from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Lyneya del Filde. Name.
Good name!
Maimuna al-Bukhariyya. Name change from Eibhlín inghean uí Raghailligh.
Her previous name, Eibhlín inghean uí Raghailligh, is released.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Black Elk Herald to Artan macAilín.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Cat's Paw Herald to Louis-Philippe Mitourard.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Escarbuncle Herald to Konrad von Greifswald.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Musimon Herald to Pendar the Bard.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Badge (see RETURNS for order name Order of the Pensioners of the Venerable Guard). Vert, a sheaf of swords inverted proper surmounted by a rose all within an orle of oak leaves in orle Or.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Ardent Herald to Kathryn of Iveragh.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Scorpion Pursuivant to al-Barran, Barony of.
Pendar the Bard. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Musimon Herald from Outlands, Kingdom of.
Sveinn Grímarsson. Name.
Submitted as Sveinn Grimarsson, the submitter requested authenticity for 10th C Norse. We have added the accent to the byname in order to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.

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Returns

Keridwen of Montrose. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Chagama Herald Extraordinary from Outlands, Kingdom of.
No letter of transfer from the Outlands was received for this submission. Also, no letter of acceptance of transfer from Keridwen of Montrose was received.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Order name Order of the Pensioners of the Venerable Guard.
Order of the Venerable Guard was registered to the Outlands in April of 1989.
Meradudd Cethin's article "Project Ordensnamen OR What do you mean that the Anceint[sic] and Venerable Order of the Most Holy and Righteous Wombat's Toenail isn't period?" (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/order/) lists a number of order names that include references to groups of people. Some examples include Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem (11th C), Fools (1380), Argonauts of St. Nicholas (1382), and Nobles of Catalonia (1481). These order names have the construction patterns [group], [group] of [placename], and [group] of [religious figure or reference].
Pensioners refers to a group of people. Venerable Guard also refers to a group of people. Therefore, the submitted order name Order of the Pensioners of the Venerable Guard uses the construction [group] of the [group]. No evidence was found that this construction was used in period, as is required by RfS III.2.b.ii (which states that "Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards"). Lacking evidence that the submitted construction follows a pattern used in order names in period, this name is not registerable.
Outlands, Kingdom of the. Transfer of heraldic title Chagama Herald Extraordinary to Keridwen of Montrose.
No letter of transfer from the Outlands was received for this submission. Also, no letter of acceptance of transfer from Keridwen of Montrose was received.

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Pends

None.

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