Mudthaw Scrolls

[lumineaux]

Someone asked me yesterday how I feel when everyone identifies a scroll as an "Alys scroll" in Court after the first sentence.  The answer is that I'm still fairly amused by it EXCEPT when it's a case of mistaken identity.  There are other people out there who do period wording.  There are more people starting to do period wording inspired by my classes or my example.  I feel bad for those people when everyone assumes that their work is actually mine.   For example, Alexandre d'Avigne did the entirety of Eularia's scroll text.  My sole contribution was to provide him with the correct blazon for her arms.   Why on earth did I get scroll credit for that?  Because everyone assumed that a period text must be my work.

OK, rant done, on to yesterday's texts:  Lillia's Silver Crescent and Alexander MacGregor's Pelican:

 

We Gryffyth, King of the East, Prince of Tir Mara, and Aikaterine our Queen, to all present as well as future who will see this page, greetings. So that cupidity, the mother of conflicts, material of disputes, enemy of peace, follower of envy, fomenter of discord, may be reined in and limited by the path of law, it is necessary that the usefulness of actions and feats and good deeds be preserved by writings and charters, lest through the passage and mutability of men oblivion steal the good which providence left and provided to the successors of those who came before. Wishing to avoid all future discord in this, a matter touching upon the weal and good fortune of our beloved realm, we do now record, for the edification of history and the instruction of all who look at this page that our servant Lillia de Vaux is a lady of singular, especial and notable worth, and that by her labors, most particularly as Eastern Crown Herald, the said Lillia has enriched the Kingdom of the East and its people. Therefore, we do now and in perpetuity remand to the said Lillia the signs and emblems of the Order of the Silver Crescent and do further instruct, command and ordain the said Lillia to display the aforesaid signs and emblems that there may be no future discord, conflict or dispute concerning the said Lillia’s merit in matters heraldic and service to the Kingdom. And so that our will may enjoy the perpetual force of stability we have caused this page to be strengthened by the force of our signatures and read in a gathering of our court upon the 26th day of March, A.S. 45, in our Barony of Settmour Swamp.

 Words by Mistress Alys Mackyntoich based on a charter dated 1247 of Cunegund of Swabia, Queen of Bohemia (http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/860.html)

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Gryffyth the King and Aikaterine the Queen, to the archbishops, bishops, counts, countesses, barons, baronesses, justices, provosts, bailiffs, ministers, officers, and all the faithful of the Kingdom of the East, greetings. Lest devouring age succeed in destroying or abolishing the memory of the most important things, our ancestors decided that whatever might be necessary for posterity to know ought to be written down under the seal of letters. It is our Royal Will that time not diminish the fame of Alexander MacGregor or the renown afforded his numerous and worthy labors as seneschal, exchequer and, most notably, as Baron ruling in our name over our beloved lands of Settmour Swamp. Therefore, we do now command, instruct and ordain that our present acts be set forth under the seal of our names so that generations as yet unborn may know that, on this 26th day of March, being commonly celebrated as the feast of Saint Dismas, in the forty-fifth year of the Society, we did invest and endow the aforesaid Alexander with the title, estate, emblems and signs of the Order of the Pelican and did further command, instruct and ordain that he bear the following Arms by letters patent: Azure, two comets palewise, heads to chief, argent between their heads a decrescent Or. By these our present letters we do further order and command that aforenamed Alexander have and hold in perpetuity these rights, honors and emblems in peace and honorably and with immunity, and we prohibit any injury or abuse to the aforesaid with the full force of our royal might and wrath.

Text by Mistress Alys Mackyntoich based on several 12th century Scottish charters found here: 
http://www.rps.ac.uk/


Edited to add:  The people counting verbs on their fingers as the scrolls were being read gave me a case of the giggles, as did the evil look from the Queen as Lillia's text kept going and going and going and going.

Comments

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Thanks again!

...do further instruct, command and ordain the said Lillia to display the aforesaid signs and emblems...

Of course, I think this means I've been *ordered* to wear the medallion. *grin*

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

Of course, I think this means I've been *ordered* to wear the medallion. *grin*

Yes, yes you have ;-)

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

And you think no one pays attention to the words...

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

I know the people who were counting verbs were paying attention. ;-)

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

I believe that Alexandre gave you credit on that one. I didn't type up the cut sheet.

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

It was also the people sitting around in the Pelicans who kept saying "This is yours, right?" because they assumed no one else could possibly do a period Latin scroll.

[handymonkey]

Near I as I can tell - and I'd be in a position to know - you got a wording credit because the docket from the Tyger Clerk included a word credit for you and there weren't credits otherwise on the scroll. I'll drop it from the court report, though.

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

I thought I heard it stated that the words were by Alexandre.

[handymonkey]

I added that to the credits when he told me he'd translated the Latin. I didn't get that he'd written the text and translated into Latin.

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

He might have actually written it in Latin first and then translated it into English. In any event, my sole contribution was the blazon so thank you for correcting that in the Court Report.

[lanome.livejournal.com]

I can usually tell which ones are actually yours, though you could easily throw me for a loop by using some bizarre source, I'm sure. Then again, I suspect I've read more of your texts more carefully than most.

lest through the passage and mutability of men oblivion steal the good which providence left and provided to the successors of those who came before

Hehehe.

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

That particular line is all original text. I only steal from the best.