knighting scroll text

[dennis guy grace]

Greetings, Cosyns,

Lyonel ici.

A knight of Artemisia recently posted this to the Artemisian list (forwarded
from the Calontiran list, I think).  I thought it might be of interest to
Ansteorra's scribes, heralds, et al.

>>Greetings from Tatiana,
>>
>>I've had several requests for the text to Andrew's Knighting scroll and
>>I thought others might be interested too. This was also a handy lead-in
>>to ask if anyone else out there has done research into period scroll
>>texts and ask for sources. I've been using mostly Henry V's grants and
>>patents from the early 1400's as a starting point and going from there.
>>Are other people actually working in this area?
>>
>>Tatiana Dieugarde
>> (typo's are all mine, though they would *never* show up in Andrew's
>>writ, no siree *cough*)
>>
>>************************************************
>>
>>We, Eringlin, right worshipful and well beloved King and Sovereign Lord
>>of Calontir, and Alethea, Our Queen, to all manner of subjects these Our
>>letters hearing or seeing, send greetings.  For as much as Andrew Ward
>>has served Us faithfully with sword and deeds, We would grant unto him
>>entrance into Our Noble Order of the Chivalry. We will it that he take up
>>this high and worshipful Order, which as a Knight We declare unto him
>>certain points that belong to this high Order of Knighthood. He shall
>>love above all things honor, be steadfast in faith, and sustain the just.
>>He shall be true to his sovereign lord and be true to his word and
>>promises. Also he shall sustain widows in their rights, anytime they
>>require him, maidens in their virginity, helping them and succoring them
>>in his good that they not be misgoverned for their own faults. He shall
>>sit in no place where an evil judgment should be wrongfully given, to
>>anybody, according to his knowledge. He shall suffer no murderers, nor
>>extortions of the people within the Country where he dwells, but with his
>>power he shall put them into the hands of justice, that they be punished
>>as the king's law requires. Given under Our great seal and signature on
>>the battle fields of the Gulf Wars on the foreign soils of Meridies this
>>15th day of March, A.S. 31.
>>
>>************************************************
>>Based on/if not lifted in chunks from a mixture of the following:
>>
>>(1)    Henry V's letters of patents circa 1418,
>>         http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=
>>                AnoChan&tag=public&images=images/mideng&data=/lv1/Archive
>>                /mideng-parsed
>>(2)    Hastings Ms. [f195b] "How Knights of the Bath Should be Made",
>>        15th Century, Archeologia, 57, Vol. I,
>>        http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/Bathmodern.htm
>>(3)    East Kingdom Scroll from the reign of Bjorn and Morgan

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Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace
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Dennis G. Grace
Postmodern Medievalist
Division of Rhetoric and Composition
University of Texas at Austin
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