Showing posts with label Elizabethan Letter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabethan Letter. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Anna Elisabetta de Valladolid - JOINT Silver Crescent & Maunche

LETTER ONE
Your Majesty, I have a request to make unto you and Our Council of the Silver Crescent, this Anno Societatis LIX. 
I speak of Anna Elisabetta de Valladolid and her presence in said Order.
Her proximity in Our East hathe taken on immense labor, guiding and directing the endeavors of our enterprises. 
By bringing forth her learning and honesty, for the education and betterment of Our Kingdom.
For executing her expertise and avocation in all her good works, be they small or great,  henceforth shall Anna be numbered in Our Order.
Your assured Queen and partner in rule,
Fiamuin
-SPACE FOR SIGNATURE-
To my very good Eastern King, at East Kingdom 12th Night

Word count 110

LETTER TWO
Madame and Dearest fellow Majesty,
This Lady you speak of, wherethrough her reputation and acclaim, has led Us to her as well!  Indeed, she has been mentioned with great reinforcement  by Our Order Maunche.
The Order has such a comfortable answers as to her pursuits she follows with excellence, so that We can set them here:
Raiment created for her entire family for attendance in Our Court, of the finest of qualities. 
Knowledge and practice of the histories of the cultures and her induction of them through victuals, tales, tutelage and translations does improve Us!
The thing, Madame, is that there can be two places of the Highest Merit that is found in one gentle.
So We say, Let Anna Elisabetta de Valladolid step forward and be counted in the Order of the Maunche and the Order of the Silver Crescent by these arms: Per chevron inverted gules and azure, crossed in saltire a spoon and needle argent
Now and forever more!
-SPACE FOR SIGNATURE-
As Matthew King and co ruler
From Our Shire Anglespur 

Word Count 172
Illumination and Calligraphy by Faolán an Sccreccain


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-Queen Elizabeth I of England
(lovingly misquoted thereof)






Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Olivia Baker - Burdened Tyger

To the grand multitude of this Eastern Kingdom/
Right honourable, with our most humble and dutiful thanks for Lady Olivia Baker’s bountiful goodness towards us at this year’s past Wars of the Roses as Steward, do we King Darius and Queen Etheldreda have made bold to present our virtuous  Olivia with such a poor and homely thing for a simple gift of adjoining her with Our Order of the Burdened Tyger/  
As the people can afford, beseeching that according to Our Lady Olivia’s accustomed goodness, you will vouchsafe this burden in good part; and we shall say most earnestly to all assembled here before us to give our sincere and earnest Lady Olivia many happy healthfu days and any and all such furthur endeavours as stewarding such a  tremendous enterprise as that the Wars of the Roses can be/
From our lands in the Shire of Glen Linn this iv of July, Anno Societatis xl at Northern Region War Camp

Illumination by Robert of Stonemarche


Based on an Elizabethan letter from a son to a mother

(The lower case Roman numerals and the / instead of a . are on purpose.  It aligns up with the Elizabethan writing style.)


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Unofficial Court Report: Northern Region War Camp