To owre dear cousin [recipient]. Right worthy and
worshepefull ladye, I recomaunde me to yow and thank yow for þe good, trew, and
diligent labour ye have hadde for the mattier of the quenes of Drachenwald. For
yowr conseil and thee manhede yow have shewn to us and otheres, we wish and
firmly command þat ye be everilkquar accompted, nombred, accepted, and receyued
into our Order of Corteisie. My wille is that ye shew þe chief signes of this
honour, ane whight edelweiss wyth a centre of redde.
Written at [group] þe [number] day of [month], a.s. [year].
Yowre frend and lege ladye, þe quene of Drachenwald,
contributed by Lady
Aryanhwy merch Catmael, based (very loosely) on some of the Paston letters.
Þese are the wordes of [queen] drachenwaldish quene
Ase saphyr in seluer semly on syht,
Ase iaspe þe gentil þat lemeþ wiþ the lyht,
Ase gernet in golde ant ruby wel rhyt
Ase onycle she ys on yholden on hyht,
Ase diamaund þe dere in day when she is dyht;
Ase all þese ys þe [recipient], pearle of grace and goodenesse and þus we [queen] make her a member of oure Order of Courteisie, on [month] [day], a.s. [year], at [event].
Ase saphyr in seluer semly on syht,
Ase iaspe þe gentil þat lemeþ wiþ the lyht,
Ase gernet in golde ant ruby wel rhyt
Ase onycle she ys on yholden on hyht,
Ase diamaund þe dere in day when she is dyht;
Ase all þese ys þe [recipient], pearle of grace and goodenesse and þus we [queen] make her a member of oure Order of Courteisie, on [month] [day], a.s. [year], at [event].
contributed by Lady
Aryanhwy merch Catmael. Lines 2-6 are from the "Song of Annot and
John", a late 13th/early 14th C ME poem.
[Source: Kingdom of
Drachenwald site]
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