[SCA-AE] ANNOUNCE: Royal Court Report: Fiber, Fabric & Fighting IV

[Diana Slivinska]

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Being the Report of the Court of Their Majesties, Christopher and  
Morgen, King and Queen of Æthelmearc.  Court held November 11, AS 41  
(2006) at Fiber, Fabric and Fighting IV in Their Shire of Abhainn  
Ciach Ghlais.  Giulietta da Venezia, Reporting Herald with the  
assistance of Her Excellency, Margaret Makafee.

Their Majesties proclaimed that They had taken a detour from Their  
journey to the Barony of Endless Hills at the request of Master  
Bedwyr Danwyn, who had uncovered a conspiracy affecting the security  
of the Crown, and who had pleaded for Their Majesties' assistance.

Their Majesties called forth Master Bedwyr, and asked him to explain  
his charges.  He noted that he had found an unsigned bit of  
correspondence with the seal broken, and in his efforts to return it  
to its rightful owner, uncovered a plot involving a good citizen of  
AEthelmearc and two accomplices in the recruitment of spies within  
our Kingdom.  The spymaster's name was quite prominent in the  
missive, and Their Majesties called for her to be brought forth.  A  
rather large brute then escorted Mistress Alicia Langland into the  
Royal Presence, bound and gagged, to the astonishment of all in  
attendance.

Master Bedwyr repeated his charges before Mistress Alicia, who did  
her best to deny everything despite her restraints.  Their Majesties  
finally agreed to allow her to speak, and ordered her gag removed.   
Mistress Alicia then proclaimed herself a loyal subject of  
AEthelmearc, and insisted that she was innocent of the charges made  
by Master Bedwyr, as were her friends.  So vehement were her pleas  
that Their Majesties determined to question the co-conspirators as well.

Their Majesties commanded the attendance of THLord Gilles de  
Beauchamps and Mistress Rhiannon y Bwa.

Mistress Alicia became very agitated, and insisted that if there were  
a plot, Master Bedwyr was also involved.  Master Bedwyr then  
implicated both Royal Heralds in the plot; and said heralds also  
implicated His Majesty.  His Majesty acknowledged His complicity, and  
asked that the remaining co-conspirators be brought forth.

Their Majesties then asked those Companions of the Most Noble Order  
of the Pelican there present to attend Them.

Their Majesties then served upon THLord Gilles de Beauchamps and  
Mistress Rhiannon y Bwa Writs of Summons directing them to appear  
before Their Majesties at AEthelmearc Twelfth Night, there to answer  
the question whether They will accept elevation to said Order.   
Gilles' scroll text penned by Mistress Alicia Langland within the  
pages of a book crafted for His Lordship by Her Ladyship, Alienor  
Russeal.  Mistress Rhiannon's scroll by Her Excellency, Roberta  
McMorland.

The Court of Their Majesties was closed.