To all Ealdormere's faithful people who shall see these
letters, Siegfried, King and Xristina Queen, in the presence of Our noble and
powerful Dukes and Duchess, Counts, Earls and Countesses, Barons and
Baronesses, Masters, Laurels, Pelicans,
Knights and their squires, ladies and lords, and all in the future as well as
the present, We greet you on this Feast of the Annunciation this 25th day in
the month of March in the 51st
year of our society, in our beloved lands of Caldrithig, a place
suitable and convenient for this.
We will and do grant by these Letters Patent, for us, our
heirs and successors, with the common advice, assent and consent of many
nobles, including Our beloved companions of the Order of the Pelican, giving with sincere intent, induction unto Colyne Stewart into the Order
of the Pelican, for he has performed exemplary and long-standing service to
Canton, Barony and Kingdom as historian, scribe and officer, always as one who
provides an example of courtesy worthy of emulation. We do create and advance him to the title and
degree of Maister of the most noble Order of the Pelican, to be in all places
of honor numbered a Peer of Our Realm, with all right, privileges, insignia,
precedence, and responsibilities thereto appertaining. We affirm by these Letters Patent his right
to bear the arms per pale gules and argent, a fox rampant counterchanged. In
token whereof, We grant him the privilege of displaying above his shield, in
whole or in part, the achievement proper to the Order: to wit, a cap of
maintenance gules trimmed argent plumetty gules, the whole goutty de sang.
We wishing to recognize his devotion and goodwill and on
account of such faithful service and loyalty
do establish by this his present
charter, to Colyne Stewart, that land called in the vernacular Drews
End, to hold of him in feu and heritage
with all its just perinents, as contained by the King's Highway to the north,
thence west and south along the
Crossroad Creek , thence east along coast
till it comes to the Royal Forrest of Beaton , thence north over the fen
back to the King's Highway. Such lands
shall belong to our ally and friend, whole, free and undisturbed in perpetuity,
without any kind of subjection, service claim or demand, with liberty of
fishing in the loch and with liberties in the forest of Beaton. And wheresoever any letters, charters, deeds
or instruments may be discovered bearing upon obligations, conventions and
compacts of this nature, We will that they be deemed cancelled, invalid, of no
effect and void, and of no value or moment.
If any, however, should try, against Our wishes, to harm
this charter, through the spite of oppressive covetousness, may they, falling
down to the swirling masses of noisome darkness, be cursed, into everlasting
fire, where they may be tormented in a cruel punishment by demons with heated
iron instruments of torture if they do not change this before their death with
appropriate penitence.
That the certainty of foreknowing may give true and clear
remembrance of the past and to that it
is forever to be known, this shall be executed in manuscript and be proclaimed in the Barony of Caldrithig
bearing the seal of the Crown, together with the seals of the Ducal house of Arrochar.
Dated this 25th of the month of March in the
51st year of our society in
the reign of Siegfried and Xristina.
Wording by Her Grce, Duchess Adrielle Kerrec.
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