[SCA-AE] Crown Tourney Question/personal banner display?

[Rich G]

>You must also be a _paid_ member of the Society in good standing, I
>believe.  I doubt that would be considered a donation either.

That is a requirement per Corpora and furthermore since those fees go to the 
Corporate treasury in California and not to the kingdom treasury, there is 
no issue with membership fees in regards to the section of Corpora in 
question. IV.F.4 specifies the *kingdom* treasury. Requiring donations to 
the corporate treasury are not covered under this and membership fees to the 
corporate treasury are required by all SCA officers on whatever level. That 
is why when I first brought up the issue I specified that if the kingdom's 
share of the submission fees, not the Laurel office's share, were waived or 
reimbursed there would be no issue with a Corpora violation. I do think that 
is something that needs to be clarified in Corpora in the future. Requiring 
a for-pay service for an office that requires funds to be donated to the 
Kingdom treasury is a loophole and this policy exploits this loophole. It 
needs to be closed, one way or another in order to prevent actions far more 
egregious than the relatively trivial one discussed here.

IMO, the purpose of the clause in Corpora in the first place is to prevent 
compulsory financial requirements for holding an SCA office above and beyond 
the price of membership. It is part of what has made us an inclusive society 
instead of an exclusive one, as many other reenactment organizations are. 
While the heraldic requirement for Crown does not break the letter of the 
Corpora, as our Seneschal has ruled, it certainly breaks its spirit as it is 
an imposition of a financial donation to the kingdom treasury, no matter how 
slight, as a requirement for holding office.

Another issue is the prohibition of the use of the Æthelmearc arms by the 
participants in Crown. I believe that is very clearly a violation of 
Æthelmearc law.

XI-300: The Badge of AEthelmearc is: Gules, an escarbuncle argent within a 
bordure Or. This may be displayed by all subjects of AEthelmearc.

I am presuming that the law on the webpage is current and has not been yet 
been modified in regards to this issue.



Rich Goranson (Lord Stephan Calvert deGrey)
Amherst, NY, USA (Barony of the Rhydderich Hael, Æthelmearc)