Laurel for Alexandre Saint Pierre
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anastasiavTo the honorable Masters and Mistresses of our Order of the Laurel, greetings.
Seeing that, for want of good rule, many mischiefs and defaults may be committed by scriveners who have no knowledge of the customs, franchises and usages of our Court, and further proceeding in the knowledge that the honor of a good man can be found in his craft, and that it is our duty and obligation to publicly provide just reward to those who work diligently for the common good and for the glory and honor of our court and our Kingdom,
We, Ioness and Honig, by strength and grace ordained and acknowledged King and Queen of all the Eastern Lands, wishing to prevent all such matters which due to wrong work or deceit could be avoided, and bound by our duty to ensure that the business of our Kingdom and its provinces and shires be recorded faithfully and in good order, do instruct and command you, firmly enjoining you, our Order of the Laurel, together and individually, in the virtue of obedience and caution which we know that you do serve to therefore raise our very faithful and careful subject Lord Alexandre Saint Pierre, Grand Master Bowman, Lieutenant in Woolfe's Privateers, Companion of the Orders of the Sagittarius and also of the Maunche, to the rank of Master of your Order, and to invest him with all the outward signs and tokens of this great estate, newly tendered under him. Furthermore do we command our college of heralds to register and bestow upon him these arms by letters patent, to whit: ----------------------------,
Further do we give him license that he may hang out his own sign and keep shop at place convenient to him, in order that he may, with due diligence and care, continue to record those documents and chronicles, and those fealts that he shall make to be sealed, such as do make up the record of our Kingdom, including grants, charters, rents, wills, tenements, and all other like documents touching the business of our realm;
Further we do give him leave to exercise the right and obligation to take students and train them, taking care that he chooses them with great regard of their reputed ability and expected diligence, and their care for the general good and credit of the society, teaching them carefully in expectation that they will in their turn be admitted in faith to this same company to which the aforesaid Alexandre is now committed, and that they shall loyally be ruled and governed in all things as are appropriate for good men and women of the said craft and for the common advantage for the people;
Further we do charge him, by special oath and upon his honor, to be loyal in the office and craft of being a writer of the court letter, that the deeds which he will make to be sealed will be well and loyally made. And especially that he will not write, nor allow to be written by any of yours, any kind of deed or writing to be sealed, whereby any falseness can be perceived, nor any copy of a deed sealed without careful examination, word by word. And that for no haste or avarice will he take it upon himself to make any other deed of great charge of which he is not aware without good advice and information of counsel, nor a false charter, nor any other deed or letter sealed that is in any way false or done for the purpose of mischief or villainy or the promotion of any altercation or discord.
Given under our seal in our barony of Dragonship Haven upon the occasion of our consecration as the rightful Monarchs of the East AS 1 April LII.
Seeing that, for want of good rule, many mischiefs and defaults may be committed by scriveners who have no knowledge of the customs, franchises and usages of our Court, and further proceeding in the knowledge that the honor of a good man can be found in his craft, and that it is our duty and obligation to publicly provide just reward to those who work diligently for the common good and for the glory and honor of our court and our Kingdom,
We, Ioness and Honig, by strength and grace ordained and acknowledged King and Queen of all the Eastern Lands, wishing to prevent all such matters which due to wrong work or deceit could be avoided, and bound by our duty to ensure that the business of our Kingdom and its provinces and shires be recorded faithfully and in good order, do instruct and command you, firmly enjoining you, our Order of the Laurel, together and individually, in the virtue of obedience and caution which we know that you do serve to therefore raise our very faithful and careful subject Lord Alexandre Saint Pierre, Grand Master Bowman, Lieutenant in Woolfe's Privateers, Companion of the Orders of the Sagittarius and also of the Maunche, to the rank of Master of your Order, and to invest him with all the outward signs and tokens of this great estate, newly tendered under him. Furthermore do we command our college of heralds to register and bestow upon him these arms by letters patent, to whit: ----------------------------,
Further do we give him license that he may hang out his own sign and keep shop at place convenient to him, in order that he may, with due diligence and care, continue to record those documents and chronicles, and those fealts that he shall make to be sealed, such as do make up the record of our Kingdom, including grants, charters, rents, wills, tenements, and all other like documents touching the business of our realm;
Further we do give him leave to exercise the right and obligation to take students and train them, taking care that he chooses them with great regard of their reputed ability and expected diligence, and their care for the general good and credit of the society, teaching them carefully in expectation that they will in their turn be admitted in faith to this same company to which the aforesaid Alexandre is now committed, and that they shall loyally be ruled and governed in all things as are appropriate for good men and women of the said craft and for the common advantage for the people;
Further we do charge him, by special oath and upon his honor, to be loyal in the office and craft of being a writer of the court letter, that the deeds which he will make to be sealed will be well and loyally made. And especially that he will not write, nor allow to be written by any of yours, any kind of deed or writing to be sealed, whereby any falseness can be perceived, nor any copy of a deed sealed without careful examination, word by word. And that for no haste or avarice will he take it upon himself to make any other deed of great charge of which he is not aware without good advice and information of counsel, nor a false charter, nor any other deed or letter sealed that is in any way false or done for the purpose of mischief or villainy or the promotion of any altercation or discord.
Given under our seal in our barony of Dragonship Haven upon the occasion of our consecration as the rightful Monarchs of the East AS 1 April LII.
