[ANSTHRLD] Blazon

[tmcd at panix.com]

"BOWERMAN, MATTHEW S. (JSC-DV1) (USA)"
<matthew.s.bowerman1 at jsc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> I just reviewed the source, being the Cheshire Visitation of 1580,
> and it was listed as "Or, three Lozenges Azure", buy the College of
> Arms.


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> I was thinking of using the arms in a Pas de' Armes in memory of my
> ancestors, but wanted to check and make sure no one in the SCA was
> using it before I did.

Ah.  Thanks for explaining the background.  I think it's a splendid
idea.  There were plenty of period tourneys and masques where people
dressed as one of the Nine Worthies, Wild Men (e.g., where the king of
France was nearly burned to death), or whatever.  Saying that you're
Lord John de Blarg, who came across with William the Conqueror or
whatever, sounds like a fine notion in such a context.

> Anyway, I was just trying to check, and boy wouldn't you know the
> Armorial says the blazons wrong.

What ... oh, you mean "the Armorial says the blazon's wrong", which
means something quite different from what you typed.  Apostrophes are
your friends, if u'sed in the right way's.

> Oh, well.  I also wanted to check with Daniel and the college to see
> if the college would allow me to do this for one tourney.  I know I
> could just do it, but I sort of wanted to get a waiver so to speak.

I hereby grant you permission to use these arms in one (1) tourney as
freely and fully as your purported possible precedessor may have done
the same.  I certify, under penalty of perjury, that I have as much
power as any general member of the Ansteorran College of Heralds to
give you this permission.

Daniel "which is to say, jack squat" de Lincolia
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