Crux Australis Principal Herald
Wakeline de Foxley
PO Box 91 Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006
phone: +61 3 6225 4334
herald at sca dot org dot au
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Crux Australis Principal HeraldWakeline de Foxley PO Box 91 Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006 phone: +61 3 6225 4334 herald at sca dot org dot au |
Warmest greetings unto the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of Lochac, and unto any others who may read this missive from Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Principal Herald
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In order to save Laurel some effort in filing Lochac submissions, I have agreed to trim all paperwork going to her so that it conforms with the length of standard US paper (11 inches). I am not asking you to trim forms before sending them to me (indeed it is probably better if you don't), but if you could bear the fact in mind when making photocopies that would be great.
[Top] [Contents]As the local herald for an SCA group, you must provide a written
report four times a year. They are due around the 10th of every third
month. (i.e. March, June, September and October). Emailed reports
may be in word, text, pdf or postscript formats (if you have some other
preference let me know and I will see what we can arrange). Ideally,
your report should include as much information as possible. If nothing
much has happened, you can just write and say "nothing much has happened".
Don't do this too often. Include:
In your reports this time, I would like you to pay particular attention
to the extraordinary heralds in your groups. The roster has grown very large
and I would like to get an overview on who is still active. Extraordinary
heraldic officers are of course welcome to contact me directly to let me know
that you are still going.
This gives us a cross reference to make sure nothing has been lost in transit. Include information relating to whether people with returned submissions are working on a resubmission.
Basically - Who did what, when and how well?
Include the date of the award and the names of the Royalty who gave it. This is a useful cross-check of both the Crux and Canon files. Please be sure to include the legal names of recipients if at all possible.
List of all those rostered freelance heralds. Let us know what they're
doing, and whether you think they need training or promoting.
Remember to date your report (and everything else you send, for that matter), and include your mundane name, address, phone and email details.
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Crux Australis Principal Herald: Wakeline de Foxley Email: herald at sca dot org dot au |
Baryl Herald: Massaria da Cortona Email: massaria at hotmail dot com |
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Bombard Herald (Ceremonies and Protocol): Uberto Renaldi Email: bombard at sca dot org dot au |
Canon Herald (OP and Gentry list): Karl Faustus von Aachen (Paul Sleigh ) Email: canon at sca do org do au |
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Astrolabe Herald (New Zealand Regional Deputy): Alys de Wilton (Jennifer Geard) Email: geard at verso dot org |
Rocket Pursuivant (Special Projects): Giles de Roet (Mark Calderwood) |
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Hund Herald (External Commentary): Thorfinn Hrolfsson (Steven Roylance) Email: roylance at corplink dot com dot au |
Mortar Pursuivant Vacant |
Cost: $20 per new submission (name, device or badge). No cost for resubmissions (within the permitted time limit) or branch submissions. Note: a new name and device costs a total of $40. Make cheques or money orders payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds". Do not send cash through the post!
NAMES - two (2) copies of both the form and ALL documentation, including title page of each book NB: The title page is not the same as the book cover! Essays about a submitter's persona may be entertaining, but do NOT constitute documentation. When citing web sites as documentation, you must include a printout of the pages used. Please don't staple your forms, paperclips are fine and loose is ok too.
DEVICES AND BADGES - four (4) colour copies and one (1) black & white OUTLINE copy. The colour copies should be accurately coloured, preferably in felt tip pen (eg Crayola Classic Colours). Colour printers or faint coloured pencil is not acceptable. The colours must be visible across a crowded Herald's meeting. Laurel has requested that gold pen NOT be used, as it deteriorates in files and turns to glue. Please don't staple your forms, assuming that all goes well at kingdom level they are separated and go to four different homes. Paperclips are fine and loose is ok too.
Please include ALL necessary documentation to support each submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to present their submission in a way that makes registration easy. Name documentation should be as accurate as possible. Failure to provide sufficient documentation is a cause for return of your submission. If you are having trouble with your documentation then speak to your local herald. If they can't answer your specific question, consider writing to Blazons, or contacting me. If I don't know the answer but I will at least be able to point you in the direction of someone who will.
[Top] [Contents]The August meeting was held on Wednesday 11th August 2004.
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, 7th of September.
Further meetings may be expected on the first Tuesday of each month.
Commentary on August submissions was received from the following
people Massaria Baryl; Alys Astrolabe; Aryanhwy Boke; Karl Cannon; Uberto
Bombard; Eleyne; Thomasina; Pedair and Giles. Present at the meeting
were Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Herald; Massaria da Cortona, Baryl
Herald; Francis of Hexham, Drommond Pursuivant and Rhodri ap Tewdwr
Awenydd, herald in training. Thank you all for your time and efforts.
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1. B{e'}o{a'}n Freborn New name and device submission Ermine, a fret purpure on a chief embattled vert a roundel between two crescents argent. The submitter wants a name suitable for a 12th to
14th century Irish male. He wishes for his name to be temporally authentic
and has allowed minor changes. In the event of a change the submitter
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2. Bordescros, Shire of Device resubmission Per chevron purpure fretty and Or, a laurel wreath vert The group's name was registered in March 2002 via
Lochac. The groups original device submission to Laurel Per chevron
purpure fretty Or and Or, in base a bunch of grapes purpure leaved
within a laurel wreath vert was returned at that time for having three
types of charge in the primary charge group [fret(ty), grapes and
wreath]. A second submission was made without the grapes to resolve
the slot machine problem. This submission was returned in July 2003 as
no mini-emblazon was included in the LoI. The group wishes to resubmit
that device unchanged |
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3. Thomasina Freborn New name (see Returns for device) The submitter desires a name suitable for a 13th
to 15th century English woman. She has allowed minor changes and in
the event of changes cares most about sound. |
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4. William Castille New badge Gules, a griffin segreant and a chief Or The submitter's name was registered in January 1995 via the West Kingdom. |
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1. Arnfinn Akison Alfsjabani New name and device submission Quarterly gules and azure, a doe's head cabossed argent
The submitter sought a tenth century Danish
name and cared most about language/culture. He was willing to accept
minor changes and in the event of a change cares most about the meaning
of the final name element; "Elf's bane". The submitted device must be returned due to unidentifiability of the doe's head. The submitter has been advised to draw a longer narrower head in any resubmission. The device appears to be clear at this time; a properly drawn doe's head should be worth a CD from a bull's head clearing this submission of Ehrenfried Schertenleib, Per pale gules and sable, a bull's head caboshed argent. |
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2. Aulay Leod Device resubmission Gules, an angel maintaining two swords argent
This device must be returned for violating
RfS VIII.2 "All armory must have sufficient contrast to allow each
element of the design to be clearly identifiable at a distance". The
swords do not have sufficient contrast against the angel. |
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3. Eirik Thorolfsson Name and device submission Per pale argent and gules, two fish hauriant respectant and embowed This submission must be returned because the
form was filled out incorrectly, the submitter's commonly used name
Eirik the Eager having been entered into the "Name being submitted"
part of the form and Eirik Thorolfsson in the "Society Name" space.
This problem was compounded by the fact that Eirik the Eager appeared
on the device submission form. Sadly I did not catch the mistake in
time and mistook the registration as being for Eirik the Eager. |
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4. Thomasina Freborn Device submission Ermine, a wyvern statant purpure a bordure vert semy of cinquefoils argent This device was returned due to the non-period depiction of the ermine spots. The spots could easily be confused with pheons or pine trees. The cinquefoils are also of some concern. While Astrolabe found similar cinquefoils in Foster, the redrawing contained there may not reflect accurate period style. The submitter has been advised to use more conventional representations of both the ermine spots and the cinquefoils in any resubmission. |
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No news this month. The April LoAR will be out soon and should contain decisions on the Lochac LoI from November 2003. A quick look at the Nov 2003 CAMeL suggest that this section of next months CAMeL will be very full indeed!
Wakeline de Foxley,
Crux Australis Principal Herald
