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East LoI dated 2023-10-31 Greetings unto Emma Laurel, Elisabetta Pelican, and Iago Wreath from Anéžka Blue Tyger, Drasma Pantheon, and Sláine Diademe. It is the intention of the citizens of the East to register the below-listed items. The Kingdom-level decisions on the corresponding 9/12/2023 East internal LoI may be found on the Kingdom Letter of Decision: https://bth.eastkingdom.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-October-LoD.pdf This is the first of three Pennsic letters for the East, and additionally contains a small handful of submissions received in the days between creating the August iLoI and the opening of Pennsic Heralds Point. We thank you for your commentary, and commend the following items to your attention.
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 2: Amelia Oak - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Vert, on an oak leaf Or a natural salamander tergiant gules
No major changes. Sound (last name should sound like) most important.
Amelia is an English feminine given name found dated to 1573 and 1575 in the FamilySearch records:
Oak is an English byname found dated to 1590 and 1594 in the FamilySearch records:
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 3: Cailleach Chainnig Bhallach - New Name Change (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device Change (KLoI)
OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in September of 2021, via the East.
Per fess purpure and vert, a castle of three towers and a badger rampant argent marked sable
Old Item: Dorghu Si'iratu, to be released.
Old Item: Per fess purpure and vert, three badgers rampant argent marked sable each vested with a quiver gules, to be released.
Cailleach Chainnig is a Gaelic feminine compound name in the form Cailleach X as found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada:
Cailleach Dhé (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/CailleachDhe.shtml) Caillech Domnaill (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/CaillechDomnaill.shtml) Caillech Fhinnéin (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/CaillechFhinnein.shtml)
The second element in each of these compound names is a male personal name in genitive form. In the case of the submitted name, the desired male personal name appears to be Cainnech, which is found in Mari's "Index" as a Middle Irish male given name prior to 1200 (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Cainnech.shtml). It's also found in "Scottish Gaelic Given Names" by Sharon Krossa (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/men/cainneach.shtml) in post-1200 Gaelic in Scotland, which brings it into temporal compatibility with both the desired spelling of Cailleach and the documentation for the byname. As we allow Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic to be combined freely for registration, Kingdom sees no reason not to allow combining them in a single name phrase.
The spelling Chainnigh was suggested at Kingdom as a more orthographically/grammatically-correct post-1200 form; given the inconsistencies in Gaelic orthography circa 1200, we are forwarding this as submitted and leaving the spelling question for Pelican.
Bhallach is a descriptive byname meaning freckled found in the Index of Names in Irish Annals by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, with several dates between 1315 and 1529 (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Ballach.shtml).
Submitter's previous device, Per fess purpure and vert, three badgers rampant argent marked sable each vested with a quiver gules, to be released.
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 4: Eithne ingen Mael Duin - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in May of 2015, via the East.
(Fieldless) In fess two musical notes conjoined by a bar in chief azure, that to dexter charged with a trefoil and that to sinister charged with a thistle Or
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 5: Emine bint Yazid - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2023, via the East.
(Fieldless) A penguin affronty head to dexter azure bellied argent, maintaining on its head a scimitar fesswise reversed argent
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 6: Fáelán Sinnach - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Or, a polypus vert within a bordure wavy azure
Fáelán is an Irish masculine given name found dated to several dates including 1042, 1051, 1063, and 1069 in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Faelan.shtml).
Sinnach is an Irish descriptive byname meaning "[the] fox" found dated in this spelling to 1077 and 1148 also in Mari's "Index" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Sionnach.shtml).
We believe this device to be clear of the badge for Order of the Blue Kraken, Or, a kraken and a bordure nebuly azure, with a DC for changing the tincture of the polypus and one for changing the orientation of the polypus, as the default orientation for a kraken is tentacles to chief.
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 7: Geoffrey Thressher - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Argent, a chevron gules and in base a penguin affronty proper, on a chief gules three crosses crosslet fitchy argent
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes. Sound (unspecified) most important.
Geoffrey is an Early Modern English masculine given name found in the DMNES s.n. Geoffrey dated to 1573 (https://dmnes.org/cite/Geoffrey/1573/BUmar-vol9).
Thressher is an English surname found in Reaney and Wilson dated to 1319 s.n. Thrasher, Thresher: Geoffrey le Thressher.
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 8: Geoffrey Thressher - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
(Fieldless) A fox's mask gules charged on the forehead with a triquetra inverted argent
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 9: Geoffrey Thressher - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
(Fieldless) A penguin affronty proper maintaining in its sinister wing a rapier argent
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 11: Ginevra Chiarina di Martin - New Household Name (KLoI)
& New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
Casa della Ametista
Argent, a raven contourny wings elevated and addorsed sable maintaining in its beak a sprig of lavender proper, perched atop a key fesswise purpure
Casa is a household name designator, found for example in Aryanhwy merch Catmael's "Names from an Early 16th C Census of Rome: Household Names" (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/leohousehold.html), as well as in SENA AppE4 as an acceptable designator for both Italian and Spanish household names.
Ametisto is the word for amethyst from Florio's 1598 Italian/English Dictionary (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio1598/) - the submitter would prefer the feminine della ametista if it can be documented (the word in Spanish is both masculine and feminine, but there's no pattern in Spanish it matches). The feminine l'ametista is found in _Dieci Libri di Pensieri diversi ... , Alessandro Tassoni_, 1636 (
https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=1917
[ www.google.com ] ) in a passage Google translate and Juliana working together gives as "and finally I keep silent about the Agate, the Amethyst, the Lapis lazuli, the Gold, the silver..." This follows a pattern of a charge or type of gem.
Casa del Diamante is found in the Roman name article.
The submitter will not allow a change to masculine ametisto, but will allow other changes that keep the feminine form of the word.
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 12: Gwenllyan Goch verch Rhys - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Argent, a horse rampant gules between flaunches purpure semy-des-lys argent.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes. Language/Culture (16th century Welsh) most important.
Gwenllyan is a 16th century Welsh feminine given name found as an attested spelling (not the header form) in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/welsh16.html).
Goch is a personal descriptive byname meaning "red" found in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names from Merioneth" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (http://heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/simple13thmerioneth.html).
verch is the feminine marker for a Welsh patronymic byname.
Rhys is a grey-period English masculine name found in the FamilySearch records: Rhys Heade; Male; Christening; 24 May 1601; St James', Westminster, Middlesex, England; Batch: C14854-1 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWMJ-T5Q)
Precedent allows Welsh patronymic markers to be combined with English father's names, reflecting late-period Welsh practice ("evidence has been found of late period Welsh using English names in bynames that include ap or ferch"). [Rhydderch ap Erwin, 03/2004, A-Æthelmearc]. This precedent was affirmed again in 2008, which also notes the use of English father's names following the marker verch. [Milisandia verch Watkyn, 9/2008, A-An Tir]. While these precedents predate SENA, we believe it is reasonable to rely on them at least at Kingdom, and we raise the matter to Pelican's attention.
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 13: Isabella Altoviti - New Device Change (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in May of 2011, via the East.
Purpure, a crescent argent, a bordure argent semy of crescents purpure
Old Item: Azure, an eagle argent and a bordure argent semy of crescents azure, to be released.
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14: Johanne von der Heide - New Name (KLoI)
(NP)
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Meaning (Johanna of the Heather) most important.
Johanne is a 16th century Dutch feminine given name. This spelling is found at least once in "Dutch Names in Latin Contexts, 1542," by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/latin-dutch.html).
von der Heide is a German surname intended to mean "of the Heather". Enneleyn von der heyde is dated to 1358 in Die deutschen familiennamen by Hermann Reichert, p. 34 (https://archive.org/details/diedeutschenfam00reicgoog/page/n51/mode/2up?q=Heyde).
There is precedent for an i/y switch in German: Commenters questioned whether the given name needed to be changed to the attested form Annelein. "German Names from Nürnberg, 1497" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/nurnberg1497.html) shows Fritz/Frytz, Ullrich/Ullrych, Simon/Symon and Linhart/Lynhart; this is ample evidence of an i/y swap in German. Therefore, we may register this name as submitted. [Anneleyn Cornelisse, 03/2023, A-Drachenwald]
Dutch and German are an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
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 15: Johannes Horner - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Per pale azure and lozengy argent and vert
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language/Culture (German) most important.
Johannes is a masculine German name found in the DMNES dated in this spelling to several years including 1332 (https://dmnes.org/cite/Johannes/1332/UrkMeck-8) in a Latin context. This spelling is also found in Middle High German (1293) and Early New High German (1405 and 1409).
Hörner is a German byname found in Brechenmacher s.n. Horner dated to 1333: Hainr. der Horner. The header form includes the umlaut, but the dated form does not; submitter indicates a preference for including it if possible. Hoerner can be found in FamilySearch ("oe" in German can be rendered as an ö):
Questions were raised at Kingdom as to whether this device presents the appearance of marshalling. We believe there is sufficient uncertainty on this point for us to forward it for Wreath's consideration.
While SENA A6F2b notes that "A section of the field which is divided further into multiple parts generally creates the unmistakable appearance of marshalling," which applies to the lozengy portion of this design, SENA A6F3a notes that "A section of the design does not appear to be an independent coat of arms if it is a plain tincture or fur (such as vair or argent ermined gules) that we do not protect as arms." This section also applies to this design, as azure is a plain tincture that we do not protect as arms.
The question of whether this does or does not present the appearance of marshalling thus rests at least partially on whether A6F is intended to be read as a flow chart in order (where items earlier in the section preempt items later on), as is commonly believed, or if there is another way of resolving conflicts between sections.
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 16: Jóra Úlfsdóttir - New Device (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name on the East LoI of September 26, 2023 as submitted.
Per bend purpure and argent, a three-footed pot argent and a bunch of grapes slipped and leaved proper
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 17: Katerina Falconer de Lanark - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in August of 2017, via the East.
(Fieldless) A demi-goat courant azure horned Or issuant from a snail shell gules
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 18: Lileth of Sundragon - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Sable, a winged calamarie inverted within a snake in annulo vorant of its own tail Or
Submitter has no preference about the gender of the name.
No major changes. Sound (Lileth is the most important part for the submitter) most important.
Lileth can be constructed from the Family Search Historical Records: Sara Lyleth, female, married 29 Sep 1640 in Surrey, England Batch #M02272-2 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVZC-5ZP. English allows for i/y swap and late-period surnames to be used as given names. There is precedent ruling the given name Lileth as registerable: Lileth of Glass Isle. Name. Lileth is a variant spelling of the gray period English surname Lyleth. English surnames from the 16th and early 17th centuries can be used as given names.
Questions were raised in commentary about whether a name alluding to Lilith, a figure in Hebrew and Christian mythology, should be permitted. In August 1982, we rejected Lilith as a given name, stating "This conflicts with Lilith, alleged first wife of Adam, who was alleged to be a demon garbed in garments of fire.... The name Lilith may not be used, as it would never have been used in period." We hereby overturn that precedent.
Since 1982, we have learned a great deal more about period naming practices, particularly in England. We have learned that many of our original assumptions about period names were incorrect. Among other things, recent research has shown that the names of classical and pagan gods such as Juno, Minerva and Vulcan were used for ordinary people in the 16th century. For other examples, see "Names from Classical History and Mythology," by Alys Mackyntoich (KWHSS 2014) (
https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=154
[ heraldry.sca.org ] ). We have also learned that people in 16th century England named their children after villainous and negative figures from the Bible, history, mythology and literature, including Nero, Judas, Cain, Jezebel and Vashti. Given all of this evidence, we cannot say with blithe certainty that a 16th century English parent would have balked at giving his daughter the surname Lyleth or Lileth as a given name simply because of its similarity to the name of the mythological figure. She could have sat next to little Medea Bardell (married in 1560 in Suffolk, named for a pagan sorceress and child-murderer) in church. [Lileth of Glass Isle, 3/2019 LoAR, A-Atlantia]
of Sundragon: Sundragon is a barony in Atenveldt which was registered in September 1984.
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 19: Mary of Highhill - New Device (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2004, via the East.
Azure, two domestic cats salient respectant maintaining a ball of yarn argent
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21: Reinert der Spinner - New Alternate Name (KLoI)
(NP)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in February of 2018, via the East.
Reinert von Neidenburg
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes. Meaning (Neidenburg - may be changed to a period form) most important.
Reinert is a German given name found in the FamilySearch records: Reinert Tillings, Christening, 22 Nov 1593, EVANGELISCH, KOELN STADT, RHEINLAND, PRUSSIA, Batch #C96974-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4GH-9JK). It is also already registered to the submitter and may be used under the Existing Registration Allowance.
von is a German locative marker; SENA Appendix A indicates that von X where X is a German place name is a valid locative byname pattern in German.
Neidenburg is the German name for the modern Polish town of Nidzica, as found in the Index Librorum Civitatum under Neidenburg / Nidzica: 1376 wird erstmals eine Deutschordensburg mit Namen Neidenburg erwähnt. Die nahe Siedlung wird vom Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens, Winrich von Kniprode, 1381 zur Stadt erhoben. (Translation: In 1376 a Teutonic Order castle called Neidenburg was mentioned for the first time. The nearby settlement was raised to the status of a town in 1381 by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Winrich von Kniprode) (
https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=1919
[ stadtbuecher.de ] ).
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 22: Reinert der Spinner - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in February of 2018, via the East.
(Fieldless) On a spider sable a compass star argent
There is a step from core practice for the use of a compass star.
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 23: Rollant de Blois - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2023, via the East.
Per pale gules and azure, three bees proper
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 24: Rónán mac Lochlainn - New Device (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 2023, via the East.
Vert, a wolf rampant maintaining a shillelagh argent, in chief three Thor's hammers Or
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 25: Sandi Cook - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Per bend sinister Or and argent, a serpent erect contourny tail nowed vert
Sandi is an English byname found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael's "Dictionary of Tudor London Names." s.n. Sandy, dated 1541. Late period surnames can be used as given names. i/y switches are allowed in late period English.
Cook is an English byname found as a header form in Bardsley; Roger le Cook is dated to 1300.
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 26: Sigurðr berserkr - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in April of 2010, via the East.
Per fess Or and argent, a bear's head erased sable
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 27: Sisuile Butler - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 2004, via Northshield.
Plumetty vert and Or, chapé ployé vert
Heralds at the kingdom decision meeting raised the following potential conflict: Eliza O'Donegan, Per chevron vert and sable, 4/1996 via the West.
Kingdom is unclear as to whether there is a DC between per chevron and chapé ployé; if so, there is one DC for the field division and one for the change in tincture of half the field.
We find the two halves of this field to maintain identifiability, even though they share a tincture.
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 28: Ulfhamr Hakonsson - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Gyronny arrondi of six Or and gules, on a bordure sable the phrase "A sword day, a red day, a wolf day" transliterated in elder futhark runes Or
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes. Meaning (not specified) most important.
Úlfhamr is an Old Norse masculine name found in Lind Dopnamn, col. 1049, from Hardhar saga Grímkelssonar ok Geirs, where it appears in the genitive form Ulfhams. Hardhar saga was written before 1250 and takes place in the last half of the 10th c.
Hakonsson is a Norwegian byname found in a charter dated to 1395 in the Diplomatarium Norvegicum (
https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=1920
[ www.dokpro.uio.no ] ), which is within 500 years of the given name.
Kingdom commenters noted that the text on the bordure lightly references Tolkien; while matters of presumption and obtrusive modernity are for the Sovereigns to decide, we do not believe this meets the standard for either issue.
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 29: Ulfhamr Hakonsson - New Household Name (KLoI)
& New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
Last Homely House
Quarterly vert and sable, a tree blasted and eradicated argent enfiled of an annulet Or, in chief seven mullets of eight points argent
No major changes. Sound (not specified) most important.
Last is an English surname used as a given name found in the Family Search Historical Record: Denice Last, 15 February 1584 Pakenham, Suffolk, England batch P01266-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGL4-D3J), dated 1584.
Homely is an English surname found in the Family Search Historical Record: Joan Homely, July 1598 Saint Margaret, Westminster, London, England batch P00160-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWFQ-2M3), dated 1598.
House is a household designator element found in SENA Appendix E as appropriate for English.
Kingdom commenters observed that this name appears in the works of Tolkien exactly as submitted. As matters of presumption are for Pelican to decide, we are forwarding this item.
Kingdom commenters noted the resemblance between this design and the fictional armory of the Stewards of Gondor, particularly in combination with the household name Last Homely House; however, as it is not in conflict under our rules with that design, and as matters of both presumption and obtrusive modernity are for Wreath to decide, we forward this item.
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 30: Ursula de Torres - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Per fess embattled sable and gules, three towers and a bull's head cabossed and ringed Or eyed gules, a bordure Or
No major changes. Sound (sound of Ursula (ur-su-la)) most important.
Ursula is a Spanish saint's name found in CORDE, dated to 1385.
de Torres is a Spanish byname found in Juliana de Luna's "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/WomenFullNames.html).
The submitter prefers the spelling Úrsula (with the acute accent), if documentation can be found to support this.
This name appears on the form as Ursula De Torres; as both precedent [Juan Sebastian de Vega y Ramirez, 4/2017 LoAR, A-Artemisia] and the submitted documentation require that the locative byname use a lowercase de, we have adjusted the capitalization accordingly.
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 31: Ursula de Torres - New Badge (KLoI)
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
(Fieldless) A bull's head cabossed sable eyed gules horned and ringed and sustaining between its horns a tower Or
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 32: Vigbjorn Blaskegg - New Name (KLoI)
(NP) & New Device (KLoI)
Quarterly sable and argent, four wolves courant counterchanged within a bordure vert semy of comets argent
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes. Language/Culture (Old Norse) most important.
Vigbjorn is an Old Norse masculine given name found in Gunnvor silfraharr's "Old Norse Men's Names" ( http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml ) s.n. Vígbjǫrn.
Blaskegg is an Old Norse byname found in Geirr Bassi p. 20.
This name appears in the header of the form as Vigbjorn Blaskgegg; as both the documentation section of the form and the referenced documentation show Blask_egg, this appears to be a typographical error, and we have adjusted the spelling accordingly.
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Done at Carolingia upon the eve of the feast of all saints, Anéžka Blue Tyger
OSCAR counts 14 New Names, 1 New Name Change, 1 New Alternate Name, 2 New Household Names, 15 New Devices, 2 New Device Changes and 12 New Badges. These 47 items are chargeable, Laurel should receive $188 for them. There are a total of 47 items submitted on this letter.Site News
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