Crown Tourney Honor Roll

Their Majesties, Timothy and Gabrielle, saw fit to recognize a
prodigious host of Ostgardrians for their divers skills and
accomplishments.  I tried to take notes, but in the great throng one or
two are sure to have been missed, for which my apologies.  Apologies
also for incomplete and misspelled names.

-- Joshua ibn-Eleazar

Silver Crescent: Baron Sean de Londres, Lady Andrea Caitlin Macintyre,
Lady Suzanne Nueber de Londres, Lord Ateno of Annun Ridge, and Mistress
Elizabeth Talbot.

Award of Arms: Kazimir, Luciliana de Castilla, Leila O'Mordha (that's
Lileas, until recently), Aife ingen ua' Lochan, Dietrich von Karow,
Nikolaia Iosifovna de Londresova, Lycier ingen Aedan, Ben of Broken
Bridge, Brithwen Boreshulla, Kate Cativa of Eastwood, and Carlin of
Eastwood.

Grant of Arms: Freya of Clan McBain.

Troubadour: Lady Branwen of House Raven's Moon.

Maunche: Lady Rufina Cambrensis, mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib,
Jacqueline Loisel.

Tygers Combatant: Lord Derek von Schwarzwald.

In addition, the Ladies of the Rose honored Aerwald and Puppy for
carrying large amounts of water several hundred yards to the list
field, and Sir Balin [correction: Sir Brion] for outstanding courtesy
on the field.

The herald also read a previously awarded AoA scroll: "We, Richard and
Anne, King and Queen of Atlantia, being right mindful of the deeds of
Our subject Timothy of Arindale...."  It took fourteen years and three
Kingdoms, but His Majesty seemed glad to receive it.


Congratulations also to John Lyttleton, who was acknowledged a Master
of the Laurel at Coronation in April.  Master G. Tacitus Adamantius
observes:

"...boy, did they nail him in court, in one of the better pieces of
Mistress / Apprentice schtick I've seen in a while.

"Mistress Aleksandra de Accipitre went before the Crown at Last Court,
and asked Their Majesties Lucan and Caitlin for advice: it seemed that
she had this wayward apprentice, who, every time she sent him to the
great centers of learning, instead of spending his time with the
learned men of letters, studying and practicing the art of calligraphy,
he went off and learned a couple of new songs, and was often to be
heard disturbing and distracting the other scribes at their work,
having, in fact. the effrontery to actually teach the songs to the
other scribes.

"HM Lucan offered to beat the wayward apprentice for Mistress
Aleksandra, but feared that the only effective final solution would be
to dissolve, permanently, the contract and bond of apprenticeship
between them. Of course, there was really only one way to do that, in
good conscience: 'Will the Companions of the Order of the Laurel come
before Their Majesties...'"


from the May 1998 Seahorse