letter to the principality newsletter, Feb 2012

Letter to all Peers, Barons, Baronesses, Noble & Gentle Men & Women of the Court of Insulae Draconis from Robert and Genevieve, Prince and Princess, Maquis and Marquess & etc.

Right trusty and welbeloved, we grete you ofte tymes wel, doyng you to undirstonde for youre confort that in accordaunce with oure crownacion oathes We haue mad gode assuraunce of the succession insofar as we haue ben in reciept of ix Lettres of intent from noble and worthy Knights, Barons, Viscountesses, Baronesses, Ladies, Lords, and Yeomen of the Principality, Viz. Vitus Polonius & Isabel Peregrinus, Susannah of Yorke & Johannes of Uffeynnton, Duarte Gonçalves & Mary verch Thomas, Clancy of Ulstere & Ursula Sturlasdottir, Richard Hight le Rampaunt & Lena the Red, Duncan Forbes & Evelyne Gallagher, Katherine of Gt. Chestreforde & Ozbeg Mangudai, Maredydd ap Gwyllym & Ysabella-Maria Vasquez de Granada y Cortes, Roderick Torkillson & Ylandra Brin Shiobhan.

Oure thanks to these who do so excercise theyre Fraunchise, for there is no succession without there be contendres, and there ben no victory, without it be ceded with consent.Thus, by the declaracion of these nobles are we conteynt that ageynst wintre agues, hazard of the road, and othere mishaps the tourneie of succession is well warded so may alle oure subgitz rejoise.

To further mak sikkar of the Tourneie we shal preseyntly journey unto Harpelstane to attend the Daunce Moot, clearyng the roads of alle vagabonds and sturdie beggres who should seke to let or molest travellers. There We wol delight in the music of Gaita, and observe the grete nimblenesse of foote of oure courtiers.

In Lough Devnaree a Court of Love shal be holden in Eplaheimr, whereat Oure royal cousins Cernac and Susannah shal discharge certeyn writs of us.

To alle oure Officers of the Reaum, whose dilligence and busynesse hath mad oure reign effortlese, We give grete thanks. Yn oure moste especial favour are Baroness Ursula, Seneschale, Lady Arianrhod, Signet, Barun Pól, Webwright and Lord Asbiorn Rockall.

Oure Reign shal shortlie ende, and winter with it, Therefore mak certeyn of youre defensable harneys and other apparaile that the Principality may mak gode showing in the tourneies and warres as well as in the courts of the Kyngdom of Drakenweald, and of all other Kyngdoms as may be ventured to.

We bid you all that may, journey to Harpelstane to witness the succession that you may acclaim oure successors in theyre new Estate.

And we truste fully unto oure Lord the Kyng that thorow his grace and throow the mercy of the Queene alle thing here that we shall haue to do with shall goo wel from hensforth to hir pleasaunce and worship whom we besech deuoutely that hit soo may bee and God haue you in his kepyng

Robert et Genevieve Princeps

is in early London english, closely modelled after the correspondence between Henry V and the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of London during his campaigns in France. see a book of London English in Useful Books