[Ansteorra] Fw: Raven's Forts Scribes need to visit the, Brewers guild less frequently.

[Sher M]

 Kitsune... Quick over here... we can hide in the ravine.
 
 (pondering) Aha!  Now I know why he always wears a hat.  It is to hid the 
 missing point!
 
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>> Oooooooo, that might just be some nice incentive for field heralds...
>> And I think that I found the missing tenth point: it's on the scribe's 
>> head!
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>> Kitsune, running away real fast.
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>> From: Chris Zakes > > At 12:43 PM 8/25/2008, you wrote:
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>> Speaking of heralds and armor, According to Alan Young's book "Tudor
>> and Jacobean Tournaments", it was a custom during tournaments that if
>> a knight dropped anything, the heralds got to claim it and then
>> ransom it back to the knight.
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>> "...at the tournament on 13 November 1565 to celebrate the wedding of
>> Ambrose Dudley, the Earl of Warwick, the heralds at one point seized
>> both the horse and armor of Henry Mackwilliam after he and his horse
>> had been thrown in the tourney by Henry Knollys. There was some
>> dispute about this and the Earl Marshal, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk
>> called upon the Kings of Arms to show precedents. This was done and
>> the heralds were awarded twenty pounds for the redemption of the
>> horse and armor..."
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>>         -Tivar Moondragon
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