ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1127 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1127 ************************************ From: 5 Jul 1998 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wrote to us looking for documentation of the English surname or for a submittor. Before I start, I'd like to clarify the service that the Academy offers. We try to help Societyfolk in choosing and using complete names that fit the historical cultures they are trying to re-create. Our research can sometimes be used to support submissions to the College of Arms, but that is not our goal and our results are often incompatible with the College's needs. Additionally, your request did not include any indication of temporal context nor a given name, which means that our assistance is necessarily limited. If your main goal is to document a particular name element, without considering the historical and cultural context, then you should consult another group (such as the heralds in your kingdom or the SCA heralds mailing list at http://listserv.aol.com/archives/scahrlds.html). Also, it appears that you have contacted us on behalf of a client. If this request has been for your own education, please excuse this assumption, but we prefer to work directly with the client in order to minimize the chances of any mis-interpretation when information is passed through a second party. If this request is for a client who has e-mail or web access, we can provide further help to the client if s/he asks us directly. If not, thank you for passing the query along. We did find a dated 1275 [1], so would make a fine 13th century English byname. We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you. Barak Raz, Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, and Arval Benicouer contributed to this letter. In service, --Walraven van Nijmegen Academy of S. Gabriel [1] P.H. Reaney & R.M. Wilson, _A Dictionary of English Surnames_ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)