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Those things that are defined to good effect according to law, although speech alone should suffice, yet should be granted with very reliable writings and documents to avoid ambiguity at a future time. Wherefore, We, Kiena, queen of the Easterners, by our royal authority have caused this document to be made so that the good people of our Realm will know that Brita Mari Svensdottir is a good and honorable woman, possessed of the virtues of the saints. And, as a clear sign of the love we bear to the aforesaid Brita, by this present charter we do command firmly and immovably that she shall hereafter and for all time bear upon her person the sign of the Queen’s Order of Courtesy. If anyone indeed should attempt, which we do not want, to bring about opposition to this ordinance or presume to change it to other than what has been decided by us, may he be separated from the fellowship of our laws and placed with ravening wolves, condemned to suffer our wrath and displeasure. Done on the 4th day of February, in the forty-sixth year of the Society, before our assembled court in the Shire of Quintavia.

Based on a charter of King Aethelstan dated A.D. 924.