Sunday, June 28, 2026

Scroll Text - Honnoria of Thescore - Millrind 2026

 Scroll Text - Honnoria of Thescore - Millrind 2026

Kingdom of AEthelmearc - Service Award

Come forward Honnoria of Thescore and hear the words of your Sovereigns. Since We have had consultation and meeting with the Peers, Coronets, Nobles, and other principal people of Our Kingdom with regard to the quantity and quality of service which you hath done for Our Kingdom, Ourselves and Our predecessors. We will command you, strictly enjoining you in the fidelity and allegiance in which you are bound to Us, that on the 27th day of June, in the 61st year of our society, you accept from Our hands the token of the Noble Order of the Millrind and do join the said Order without delay or excuse. In witness do We,  Oliver and Grainne, King and Queen of Sylvan AEthelmearc, commit Our hand to paper at Our Castle at Pac Interruptus, in Our The Barony of Thescorre.

inspired by Summons of a Baron to Parliament (1295)

Scroll Text - Katherine Kiersey - Millrind 2024

Scroll Text - Katherine Kiersey - Millrind 2024

Kingdom of AEthelmearc - Service Award

Attend Us, Noble Order of the Milrind, right trusty and right welbeloved Order. We will and command you, Our Order, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, unto Our welbeloved Katherine Kiersey, Baroness, in consideration of such service as she hath done unto Us in the Barony of the Rhydderich Hael and other areas of Our Domain, a medallion bearing the emblazon of the aforesaid Noble Order, to wit, Fieldless, a millrind argent, that she may proudly wear as We mean to add her name to the rolls of members of the Order, and besides such other benefits as We mean towards her for her service as Coronet, Scribe, and Royal Retainer. And these Our letters shall be your sufficient warrant in this behalf. Given by the hands of Oliver and Grainne, King and Queen of Sylvan AEthelmearc, at Our castle in the Barony of June, the 27th day of October, three score and one years since the founding of Our Society, at Pax Interruptus.

based on a privy seal letter to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer for payment of a certain sum to William Brymingham, 27 September, 1570

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Scroll Text - Robert of Ferness - Scarlet Guard 2026

 Scroll Text - Robert of Ferness - Scarlet Guard 2026

Kingdom of AEthelmearc - Martial Award

To all and singular as well as Nobles and Gentles to whom these present letters shall come from Oliver and Grainne, King and Queen of Sylvan AEthelmearc, which stretches from the boarder of the Eastern Kingdom to the East, to the Middle Realm to the West, from the shores of Ealdormere to the North and the Lands of Atlantia to the South. Greetings and peace to all. Forasmuch as anciently from the beginning the valiant and virtuous acts of excellent persons have been commended to the world with sundry monuments and remembrances of their Good deserts. Know ye that of Our special grace and in consultation with certain Noble Archers of Our Realm, We by these presents for Us, Our heirs, and Successors do Give and Grant to Our trusty and well beloved servant Robert of Ferness free liberty and license from time to time, and at all times for ever hereafter, to discover, search, find out, and learn all such manner of things as may give him wisdom, knowledge and joy within and upon the archery range both within Our Realm as well as in foreign Realms as befits a Companion of the Noble Order of the Scarlet Guard and to the enrichment of the wealth and knowledge of Our most favored Kingdom of AEthelmearc. And that he do so, bearing in mind the virtues of service, chivalry, and duty which underpin Our Society. In witness where of We Oliver and Grainne, as mentioned above, have set here unto Our Hands in the Year of the Society AS 61, while sitting upon Our Thrones at War Practice in Our Shire of Steltonwald.

Inspired by the Second Grant of Arms from 1586 awarded to the Merchant Taylors and Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte issued in 1578.