Kingdom Seneschal

[Galen W. Bevel]

You wrote: 
>
>In response to Don Aubrey's email: the crown is responsible for 
signing and
>sending the warrant. I personally filled out a corporate warrant and 
sent
>it to the previous Crown the first or second week of May for their 
signature
>and forwarding to the Society Seneschal. I do not know why they did 
not follow
>through, but the means was there.

We did follow through.  A copy was sent to Sedalia, and we overnighted 
a copy to John Bearkiller as soon as we found out that Artorius had not 
recieved his warrant. If you knew he had not recieved his warrant, why 
were we not informed?  We WERE Crown at the time and you were the 
Kingdom seneschal, it might have been nice if you had dropped us a line 
and said "duhhh..what gives?"  Bearkiller tells us that he told you 
that he did not have the warrant, yet you did not see fit to tell us.  
Why did you not do so?

I checked a few times with Duchess Sedalia
>McNare and finally with John Bearkiller when we were not seeing the 
warrant
>countersigned by Corporate back in Artorius' hands. (After signature 
by
>Corporate, the signed warrant is sent back to the warranted officer).
>
>It placed us in a percarious position at the time of Coronation 
because the
>Board of Directors was doing a ruling on the investiture of 
Boardermarch.
>[Individuals in Bordermarch had protested the Baronial Investiture and 
a 
>petition was sent to the Society Seneschal. The Society Seneschal had 
sent
>a letter back cautioning the Crown to hold off so the protest could be 
looked
>into.

WHOAAAA.... back up a minute!  We NEVER recieved anything from Sedalia 
about the investiture. Not one word.  In fact, Mikaela told us she 
talked with Sedalia and Sedalia told her we were well within Corpora 
and our own Kingdom law and everything was OK. The first we heard about 
any petition was AT the investiture, where we were assured by the 
Regional seneschal that it never left the Barony.  We then talked to 
you and told you what we heard, that was the first we heard from you on 
the subject, and you did not tell us at that time that it had gone 
anywhere.  In fact, the next we heard about it was from John Bearkiller 
telling us he had ruled in our favor.  Let me tell you it is a bit 
disconcerting for a crown to be told about a ruling by the Society 
Seneschal/Board about something you did not even no had gone before 
them!  As seneschal, we depended upon you to keep us informed of these 
things.  Why did we have to call you to ask about these things in order 
to find out, and why didn't you inform us of the Corporate happenings.  
Let me repeat myself 1)We never heard from Sedalia, 2) we never heard 
from you or anyone else about the petition until after John had ruled 
on it.  Anything we found out, we found out on our own.  This is not 
what I expect from a kingdom seneschal.

>After the investiture went forward a request for a ruling on the 
validity
>was requested.] During the Bordermarch issue, both Badon and Artorius 
were
>accused of instigating this protest (Badon as the "looser" in the 
poll, 
>Artorius as "pushing" for the petition). I can say that Artorius was 
not the
>individual who suggested a petition. Both myself and Artorius had 
recieved
>calls from individuals in Bordermarch asking what could be done after 
the
>announcement of who would be installed as Baron and Baroness in 
Bordermarch.
>Both of us quoted the following from the Corporate Governing 
Documents:
>
>Corpora VI.B.1.a Territorial Barons and Baronesses, Appointment and 
Removal
>"The Crown shall appoint a territorial Baron and/or Baroness according 
to
>the laws and customs of the  kingdom when a branch is granted baronial 
status,
>and at such subsequent times as a new Baron and/or Baroness is 
required. The
>Barony's opiion on the matter must be requested and received in 
writing, and
>the appointments must not be substantively opposed by the populace of 
the
>barony."
>
>It was the last line that promted a petition to Sedalia as a way to 
state their
>substative disagreement with the planned appointment. Badon was at no 
time a 
>part of this process. In fact when contacted by the individuals doing 
the
>petition, he told them we would not be involved.
>
>So what does this have to do with a warrant for Kingdom Seneschal? 
Well the
>board was deciding on the fate of an investiture in this Kingdom that 
allegedly
>involved two candidates for the office of Kingdom Seneschal. We were 
not sure
>if Corporate would allow either individual to be signed by the Society 
Seneschal
>until all charges could be cleared! If Artorius' warrant had been 
signed the
>best Corporate could have done is suspeded him for a period of time, 
but with
>no warrant, we were in a situation where we were in danger of not 
getting the
>warrant signed! This was what was discussed at this now famous 
"secret" meeting
>held Sunday at Coronation where all 3 candidates (Artorius, Badon and 
Sir
>Burke) were discussed. If a mistake was made, it was not having Sir 
Burke
>at the session, our apologies to Sir Burke. It was at this meeting 
that 
>Baron Artorius took his name from consideration, and Badon's warrant 
was signed
>by Mikael and Mikaella.
>
>We already knew things would get confusing IF Corporate would sign 
Badon's
>warrant. There is still no guarantee (we still do not have the warrant
>back in Kingdom) and did not want to explain yet another candidate 
that was
>Kingdom Seneschal, then wait a minute, nope he is not. So it was 
decided to
>wait until we had a real signed warrant before making yet another 
announcement.
>This explination was to go with the announcement, there was no great 
>consipiracy. Gees people.
>
>Maire
>
>
Basically, I want to know why it seems that there was a complete lack 
of any attempt on your part to keep us informed about what was going 
on. If you are going to make statements on the list making it look like 
we were negligent in our duty, then I suggest that you look to your own 
first.  If I sound angry, it is because I am.  I feel as if I was 
intentionally kept in the dark and led down the primrose path by 
someone, and I think the whole thing has a decidedly rotten smell to 
it.

I am hereby asking you officially for an answer to these questions:

1) Why were we not informed by you of a petition from the Barony of 
Bordermarch being sent to the Society Senechal's office relating to our 
choice of Baron and Baroness?

2) Why were we not informed that Artorius had not recieved his warrant, 
when John Bearkiller has informed us that he had told you at least two 
weeks prior to Coronation that he had never recieved a signed warrant?

Also, I am requesting a copy of any letter to us from Sedalia which you 
may have been cc'd on, relating to the Bordermarch situation.


Galen Eadwin Kirchenbauer


cc: TRM
    John Bearkiller
    Baron Artorius