Lothar's notes about this collection of articles. All files are in raw text form and are viewable from the index. This archive represents everything I wrote for an audience during my time as a herald. Not all of it saw print and some it didn't shouldn't have. Use of these files is at your own risk. Much of this stuff is rough drafts or work in progress. Admittedly, this is the web so I can't do anything about it, but I would be grateful if people downloading the articles could do the following: a) Credit me (Thomas Barnes) b) Include copyright info. (c. 1994-2000 c) Keep the article intact, though it's cool to excerpt bits for purposes of research, review, and debate. When you do quote text, credit me. d) Use the articles in the manner in which they were intended: to help clients, to make SCA heraldry and onomastics less bureaucratic and more authentic, and to understand the beauty of medieval heraldry. Thomas Barnes