p-heralds-msg - 4/18/00

Period heralds. Oaths for heralds. References.

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Subject: Question for Heralds (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:02:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: clevin at ripco.com (Craig Levin)
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org (Merry Rose)

Caterine:
> Does anyone know about something called a Herald's
> Oath and Herald's Vigil?  An old SCAdian friend
> mentioned it and can't remember where she heard it
> from.  We'd like information if anyone can help.

Herald's oaths are findable at my website,
http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~clevin/oaths.html . These particular
oaths are in English and date from the fifteenth century, and, by
and large, they aren't very different from the oaths taken by the
royal heralds of England today.

I've never heard of a herald's vigil. In general, a lad was taken
to work as a pursuivant in his teens, it seems, and gradually
worked his way up the ranks, being recognized as a herald in due
time as a result of his hard work, but no vigil, as in a
knighting ritual, seems to have taken place before his creation
as a herald.

Dom Pedro de Alcazar
Barony of Storvik, Atlantia
Drakkar Pursuivant
Argent, a tower purpure between 3 bunches of grapes proper

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