Re: Homage and Fealty

[PETERSR@spiegel.becltd.com (Peters, Rise J.)]

Poster: PETERSR@spiegel.becltd.com (Peters, Rise J.)

Aileen writes:
>>(I'm sworn fealty to Syr Forgal, in a ceremony more resembling the paying 
of
>>homage.  As I could be no one's "man", would you then call it "dammage?")

Well, in period Littleton had the following to say about women swearing 
homage:

Sec. 87.  Also, if a woman sole [that is, a single woman] shall do homage, 
she shall not say, I become your woman; for it is not fitting that a woman 
should say, that she will become a woman to any man, but to her husband, 
when she is married.  But she shall say, I do to you homage, and to you 
shall be faithful and true, and faith to you shall bear for the tenements I 
hold of you, saving the faith I owe to our sovereign lord the king.

And there's also a paragraph on how a married couple would do homage and 
fealty jointly.

Back on the question of property conveyance... can I assume that my earlier 
post on instructions to His Honor the Mayor was =perfect= and that no one 
has any alternatives to suggest?  Wow....


Caitlin