From: rclovely@aol.com   
      
   It was a long and sometimes rocky road for Glymm Mere to achieve Baronial   
   Status. The modern requests for elevation had been presented to the BOD, the   
   Kingdom Seneschal, their Majesties and their consent was given for elevation.   
      
    The ceremonial petitions were ready, the coronets fitted and the regalia   
   finished. The ceremony, planned by our Herald, Lord David of Moffet, had been   
   rehearsed.  We were ready.   
      
   We were to be elevated at Blath An Oir’s Twelfth Night 1993, at the last court   
   of Darius and Jacintha. When we  were called to court we processed in with   
   Lord Valerian the Innocent carrying the Shire Banner before us.  I, as   
   Seneschal, dressed in Tudor    
   finery, followed him escorted by David. Lord Fergus and Lady Gwendolyn   
   Fitzallan, our Baron and Baroness Designate, followed me dressed in Glymm   
   Mere’s blue and yellow. The rest of the populace, dressed in their Twelfth   
   Night best, followed the Shire    
   Officers in their Baldrics of Office.  There must have been thirty of us   
   there.     
       
    We knelt before their Majesties and I presented the Ceremonial Petition. They   
   gave it to David to read.  It was long, I was tired.  My mind started to   
   wander and I started thinking “Thank God for corsets, I can’t slump”.   I then   
   realized there was no    
   sound in the hall but David reading the petition.  About five hundred people   
   were totally quiet.  When David’s voice lifted and he proclaimed “Glymm Mere   
   will be a Shire no more”, there was a collective intake of breath. When their   
   Majesties accepted our    
   petition and handed me the Charter there were cheers.    
      
   Fergus and Gendolyn were then called to approach their Majesties.  They were   
   attended by four maids of honor, Two carrying the cloaks and two carrying the   
   coronets, on pillows.  They were invested as Baron and Baroness and when they   
   were presented to the    
   populace, the “hazzas” could have brought down the roof.    
      
   Since then, I have held other offices and other titles in the Barony, the   
   Western Region and the Kingdom.  But, the office and title of which I am most   
   proud is the Last Seneschal of the Shire / First Seneschal of the Barony of   
   Glymm Mere.   
      
   HL Marguerite of Kenneydell    
      
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