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Events Open to All
Photographer's Tea Monday, 7-9pm AS8. Come by and talk shop. No topic too big, no camera too small.
For Sale
Agate Burnishers - bone ivory & horn handles - hand carved - also dog tooth and carnelian. Guild of Limners, #26.
12x12 Panther Marquee, center pole, 7' walls, full setup package w/accessories. Excellent condition. $1000 (retails $1800 new)/ View/more info at Willow Point NA (Furies Keep). Ask for Theresa/Fionnghuala or call (216)952-2839.
ATTENTION WOAD WARRIORS! Feeling a little blue? I have the real thing! Genuine woad imported from Scotland. $4, limited supply, buy early. Guild of Limners #26.
BAD GARB I and BAD GARB II - Now AVAILABLE from Claus the Toymaker - How do you know you are not in them unless you read them?
Benefit the Chirurgeons - buy an original Pennsic 42 T-shirt, $12. Available from Claus of Burzee, #26 Merchants Row.
Calligraphy books under $10. Many rare titles. Guild of Limners, #26, across from the Barn.
Panther double bell wedge w/awning and fitted floor. 12x16 complete setup package. Used 2x. $850 neg. at Foxheart on St. Lawrence Way or (301)802-6623
Claus' Guide on "How Not to Get a Laurel" - Audacious and naughty - the truth is hard and very funny. See Claus the Toymaker. #26 across from the Barn.
Pergamena parchment sent their stock to the Guild of Limners - Whole skins down to 5x10 pieces. Finest quality from $8 - $200. Limited quantities
Costumes by Loren has garb in lots of Celtic knotwork and middle eastern patterns. Cloaks, tunics, kaftans, skirts and much more. Come see us at 166 Fleet Street.
Bad Garb Old Maid card game - Yes we have 'em! - from Claus the Toymaker (who else?)
Does your doll need garb? Custumes by Loren has garb for 18" fashion dolls plus dressed bears in many sizes. Come see us at 166 Fleet Street.
For sale - Bad garb, bad garb, What'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when the punchline's you! - Claus the Toymaker
For Sale - Glass muller & burnishers from England, also Mitchell nibs, vellum, parchment and hand bound leather books - The Guild of Limners, #26
For Sale: Ink - Oakgall, walnut hull, also gallo-annic ink, absolutely perfectly opaque. $4 per bottle. Guild of Limners #26.
For sale: SCA Road Signs - "Fighter Practice Area", "Danger: Viking Territory", and many others, some new and very silly. $5 each. Claus the Toymaker. #26.
For Sale: THE GUILD OF LIMNERS in the little white house on Merchants Row sells ink, quill pens, pigments, various colors, madder, woad, all kinds of paint and tools necessary for scribes and artists.
GLORIOUS SILK taffetas at Dragon's Magic #27
Good garb - Bad garb PAPER DOLLS - even more humorous than the works of Beaumont and Fletcher! From Claus the Toymaker.
Good Gentles...How much have you spent on your armor? How much have you spent on your garb? How much have you spent on your children? This has been a public service announcement from Claus of Burzee, Toymaker
Hard to find pigments -- minium, vermillion, azuro, indian yellow, red ochre. Guild of Limners, #26 across from the barn
Hurry to Claus the Toymaker for your leper - Supplies have been limited since a carpenter from Galilee passed through.
For Sale: Vellum - opaline vellum (sheepskin) direct from England. Finest quality. Sale price $20 per sheet. The Guild of Limners, #26 across from the Barn.
Knives sharpened, cleaned, small repairs, sheaths - Cloak and Dagger, 13 Bow Street.
MEDIEVAL POTIONS? Well only the kind to write with. Color and black ink making from period recipies. Come listen to the teachers then tell us of your experiences. FOURTH ANNUAL INK AND PIGMENT FORUM, Sunday 2pm, Guild of Limners booth opposite barn.
Blank Books - hand bound in leather, handmade paper, thick and chunky. Fair trade products. $8-$32, limited supply - Guild of Limners. #26.
Modern domed camping tent, 12x15, 3 room, good condition. La Wren's Nest B#185
Established in 2001, this is a popular, lucrative and unique merchant booth with growth potential. A great opportunity for the right buyer. Come by (Booth #188) and ask for details. Don't delay, though, because we are accepting bids NOW and will make a decision by mid-War week. Serious inquiries only, please.
One person "Boy Scout" tents, good shape, all proceeds to troop. Make good armor garages. Cloak and Dagger, 13 Bow Street
PARCHMENT. Genuine made by Pergamina. Calf, sheep, goat, deer. Many sizes from 5x7 to whole skins. Manuscript and calligraphy quality. Limited quantity. Buy now! Guild of Limners, #26, across from barn.
Pavilion company for sale. Est. 1982. Set own hours, full/part time, turnkey, everything incl. See our ad in the gatebook. Period Pavilions, space 28
Penners at long last! Beautiful handcrafted leather cases for your pens. Durer wished his was as nice as these. Guild of Limners.
"Pennsic for Dummies" by Claus the Toymaker - scurrilous, tongue-in-cheek fun, everything you need to know to complete your Pennsic experience.
Pennsic in a Box: the perfect gift for a friend who couldn't attend Pennsic 41. Images of people, places and things that make Pennsic special. From Claus the Toymaker, #26.
PERIOD PAVILIONS - new and used for rent and sale. On site for immediate delivery and 12 more on site at end of war. Others in stock, can ship. We do custom pavilions - colors and intricate shapes and faux buildings our speciality. More details and pics plus free catalog at space #28.
Porcelain dolls, stamped and gilt leather, woven tapestry panels, 24" hair pieces and much more. Space 28.
PRETTY WOOLS - buy them before you need them! Coating, suiting, gauze-weight! PRETTY LINENS too! at Dragon's Magic #27
Rubber stamps hand carved by Mistress Briana - Unique to the SCA all from period sources. Copyright free! Only at the Guild of Limners.
Sparklies! Lots of sparklies, shinies and jinglies at Costumes by Loren. Earrings, bracelets, necklaces and more. Come see us at 166 Fleet Street.
Sword sale! Warehouse clearance. Dent, ding, discontinued. 2nd week of War, La Wren's Nest B#185
Tent repair supplies; waterproofing, seam sealer, stakes, emergency grommets, sewing on site. Period Pavilions, Space #28
Tentsmith 14x8 officer marquee pavilion. 4ft walls. $800 incl futon floor and extras. Call Ivy (917)626-9138
Used garb: Large to X-Large. Several eras. Make an offer. It all must go! A Leather Crafter, Booth 56, behind the barn.
Warm cloaks, lots of styles, custom made on site. CLOAK AND DAGGER, 13 Bow Street
Woad, Madder, Cochineal, Brazilwood, Longwood - dyes to die for. Guild of Limners, #26.
Bard's Haven is open for business. Celtic bardic on Tuesday. Sing for your supper nightly. E19.
12 Step Meetings, AA, NA, OA, SA, GA, All welcome, 4:00 PM daily Denys the Decadent's Camp E07, along Great Eastern Highway.
Archers! Bounty on NSA drones! See Culann the Lecher for details.
ATTENTION BREWERS: Novices, journeymen and all interested in brewing! House DeLondres is hosting an open brewing round table. Two master brewers will be in attendance as well as other very accomplished brewers. Topic of discussion is "All Things Brewing." Bring what you have for testing, evaluation and open discussion. Mon 4-6pm, Wed 4-6pm. X04 next to shower houses.
Bard's Haven is Pagan friendly. We have mead too.
Reform Jewish Shabat services, #9 BowStreet, Silver Dragon Company. Today, 6pm. Oneg to follow.
Help Wanted
WANTED before War's end: Trailer for on-site storage. Call Pieter (765)586-5990 or email@example.com
Ladies social - Lesbian, bisexual, transgender womyn invited to Kingdom of Acre camp, Sunday, July 28, 3-5pm for afternoon "tea" - N13 - Come and enjoy good company, fun activities and good food.
To Helena, this war marks 2 years for us. Just sayin'. Love, Magnus


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Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
Would a Lilac by Any Other Name Smell So Sweet? A Search for Fragrance
John Alexander III
The quest for all-encompassing knowledge of his favorite genus has taken the Arboretum's plant propagator down many byways. This one required a cadre of volunteers and a high-speed computer.
Read the article here.
This article originally appeared in Arnoldia volume 56, number 1, in 1996.

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I'm sure you've all been waiting with baited breath to find out what happened to Eleanor Hopkinson and George Carradice since last week's revelations.
Below is the newspaper account of the trial as reported in the Kendal Mercury on 21 October 1865.
Eleanor Hopkinson and George Carradice were charged with stealing £10 from the person of John Moon, on the 1st October. Both were also indicted for receiving the money. They were also charged on another count with stealing a silver watch from the person of Leonard Metcalfe on the 1st of October. Prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr Mc"Oubrey addressed the jury for the prosecution, said: Mr Moon was a basket maker in Kendal, at the time of the robbery. He received £60 in 12 £5 notes from Mr C G Thomson, as a legacy. On receiving this money, perhaps he was not so careful of his conduct as he might have been. At any rate he was in the house about 12 o'clock. He had at this time five £5 notes, and had occasion to go to the privy. On his way there he had to pass the house where the two prisoners lived. While there the female prisoner came and used him very indecently. He made his way out as soon as possible, and on getting up on Sunday morning he found the five notes were gone. He gave notice of the robbery immediately to Serge. Hogarth. When, on Sunday evening Eleanor Hopkinson was in the Black Bull, she asked for change for a £5 note. Now, this note note was one of the very numbers which Mr Moon gave to the police, 257E. A boy named Mark went for change to Mr Break's. Breaks went up stairs to get change, and, very properly took it himself over to Mrs Thompson. This note was afterwards given to Mr Hibberd. Mr Hibberd on this went to the house and apprehended the prisoner Hopkinson, and he afterwards found the other note, number 90G in a heap of ashes, a very unlikely place to find notes honestly come by.
He then called John Moon, who was sworn and said; I live in yard No. 109, Highgate; I am a basket maker. The prisoners Carradice and Hopkinson live in the same yard. I remember last Sunday morning; early on that morning, I had occasion to go to the privy – it was then about twenty minutes past twelve; to get to the closet I had to pass the prisoners' house. The female prisoner came to me whilst I was in the closet; she used me very roughly; I had had some drink in the evening, I knew what I was doing. I left her in the privy, I was not more than three or four minutes in the place. When I went to the privy I had five five pound notes in my pocket. They were five notes issued by the Kendal Bank. I first missed the notes about seven o'clock on the same morning. I gave the number of two of the notes at the Bank, on Monday morning. It was directly the Bank opened. (The notes were here handed to the witness for identification.) I can identify these as two of the notes. I have not seen the notes since Saturday up to this minute. The numbers of the notes are 90G and 257E. I speak from memory. They are two of the notes I lost on Sunday morning.
Cross-examined: I received the money on Friday night about six o'clock.
Did you drink at all that night? – I had a glass or two.
Did you drink on Saturday? – Oh, yes, I had a good sup.
Well, were you so drunk that you did know what you were doing? – No, I was fresh but I knew what I was about.
Were you "fresh" at six o'clock? – Yes
And I suppose you got "fresher" afterwards? – I was better afterwards.
What! did you get better the more you drank? – Yes.
How much drink did you have on Saturday? – Oh, I can't say.
Did you have twenty glasses? – I don't think i did, I might have had a dozen.
A dozen glasses of what? – Oh, ale.
Did you have no spirits? – I had a glass of rum in the morning.
As "freshener" I suppose. Did you have anything else in the day, except ale? – No. I was last in the White Hart, I had a glass or two of ale there. I have a wife, it was not my wife I met. I met the woman at the Exchange, she did not get any £5 notes from me – we took a walk down Miller-field, to Miller-bridge. That was between eight and nine o'clock. I am certain she had nothing to do with the loss of the notes. I gave her a glass or two. I had the notes in my inside waistcoat pocket. I knew well I was doing when I got home. I gave several people a glass of ale, they knew that I had the money. When I was in the privy the woman came in to me – I was not there two minutes. I got out as soon as I could. I felt her "rummaging" about my breast. I did not examine my pockets when I got in the house. I felt that the notes were there about twelve o'clock. It was about twenty minutes past twelve when I was in the privy. The numbers of the two notes were 257E and 90G. I know the numbers of several more.
Name them. – I have an objection to doing so.
Being ordered by the Bench to do so he gave numbers of two more of the notes.
Examination resumed: I had the numbers in my memory. I am a basket maker.
I am the son of William Mark, who was an innkeeper. My mother keeps the Black Bull, in Kirkland. I live with her. I remember Sunday last. The female prisoner was in our house on that day. About nine at night she asked mother if she could change the note. Mother could not. The prisoner offered to give me a penny if I would change it. She had some other notes in a piece of white calico, they were folded up. She took one out to give to me to change. I went to several places. I went Richard Breaks, who took the note and went across with me to our house with the change.
Cross-examined: It was about half-past nine. She used to come to the house to clean.
Richard Breaks was then sworn – I am a grocer, living in Kirkland. I remember the last witness coming to my house; it was a little past nine on Sunday night. he asked if I could change his mother a five-pound note. I asked what kind of note it was. He said, " A Kendal note". He handed the note to me. I took it upstairs and changed it. I left the note upstairs, and took the change to the Black Bull. I found the landlady and a good many women there. I asked who wanted change: none of the women would take to the note or the change. I called the landlady into the kitchen. She said it belonged to Eleanor Musgrove (the female prisoner goes by this name), but that she the landlady would have nothing to do with it. I gave the note back to Mrs Thompson.
Margaret Thompson, was sworn, and said: My husband kept the Black Bull. On the 1st of October the prisoner came in on the Sunday evening and asked for change. She sent the boy for it. Mr Breaks afterwards came across with the money. She was in the lobby waiting, when se asked me for the money. I told her I would give it to the right owner. I fetched the note from Mr Breaks and gave it to Mr Hibberd.
Edward Hibberd said: I am superintendent of police. On Monday morning last, a little after ten o'clock, I received this note I now produce, No 257E, from the last witness, Mrs Thompson. Shortly afterwards I apprehended the prisoner, Eleanor Hopkinson, at her house in a yard in Highgate. I charged her with stealing five five-pound notes from John Moon, whilst in a privy together late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning. She took from some part of her dress these two keys (produced in court), which she gave to a woman named Mary Barber. I took the keys from her. She said that one belonged to a tea caddy, an the other to the lower room or coal cellar. I locked the prisoner up. The house door was locked. I returned to the house soon after, and partially searched the house. The room where the prisoners lived was locked. I locked the door again when I left. When I returned again to the room I found the lock broken off and the door standing open. The prisoner Carradice was sitting on the floor at the far end of the room. he was the worse for liquor. I searched the room and found beneath some ashes and rubbish about eighteen inches from where the prisoner was sitting a piece of rag and a five pound note, No 90G. I took Carradice into custody and brought him to the office. I charged him with being concerned in the robbery of notes from Mr Moon on Sunday morning.
This was the case for the prosecution. Mr Fawcett then addressed the jury for the defence. He said he appeared only on behalf of the female prisoner. he not disguise from himself or from the jury that it was a very serious charge, and at first glance it did seem as if the prisoner were guilty. He then explained the law on felony, and said that unless he could persuade them that the woman could satisfactorily account for the amount of money it would go very hard against them. he must say there was something very curious about the manner in which the money was lost. Did the jury really think the woman was the one who took the notes? and, although he did not appear on the part of the man he could not see any fact against him. He then sifted the whole evidence, and left the case with the jury.
The jury retired, and on re-entering gave in a verdict of "guilt against the woman", but found the man innocent. The woman was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
The prisoners were then further charged with stealing a watch, the property of Leonard Metcalfe, on the 1st of October.
Mr Mounsey appeared for the prosecution, and called Leonard Metcalfe, who said: He is a driver at the Commercial Hotel, and started about eleven o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 30th of September, to take a party to Holme. he started from that place about two o'clock on Sunday morning. Falling asleep several times, he was at length aroused by two men unknown to him shouting "Len". On looking up to see what time it was, he found his watch was gone.
Superintendent Hibberd deposed to findning the watch, with the bank-notes, in the prisoner Carradice's room.
The jury acquitted both prisoners.
Interestingly, despite giving quite a full account of the trial the Kendal Mercury did not include Eleanor's reaction to being found guilty and to her sentence. Unlike the Westmorland Gazette and the Carlisle Journal which both reported – The prisoner screamed out vile malediction against the Chairman, and was removed from the dock cursing.
So what is "penal servitude"? It really just means a term of imprisonment that usually included hard labour.
Eleanor spent about ten months in prison at Kendal and was then transferred to Brixton Prison in July 1866.
Below you can see the:-
- Criminal Register for Kendal for 20 October 1865 showing Eleanor Hopkinson and George Carradice
- Record showing that Eleanor was transferred to Brixton Prison on 27 July 1866.
Clearly Eleanor did not complete seven years locked up because as I said in Part 1 of this story last week she appears in the 1871 census living with George Carradice in Kendal.


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Waltgelina at Macworld, Part 2!
Here is the second video installment of Walt Mossberg visiting Macworld yesterday, trailed by the very brave Associate Editor John Sullivan of AllThingsD.com, who gamely borrowed BoomTown's Flip video camera to take on the momentous task.
In this episode, Walt visits various partners of Apple's, including Microsoft and, apparently, Dr. Seuss.
In the wise words of "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish": "From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."
So it seems to me, at least.
Here is the video:
Here is Part 1 of Waltgelina at Macworld.


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Gov. Scott Walker's book hits store shelves
'Unintimidated' stirs more talk about Walker's possible run for president
Wisconsin voters are getting their first look at Gov. Scott Walker's new book. "Unintimidated" hit store shelves Tuesday.
Some are already suggesting the book is a first step toward a run for the White House.
"Unintimidated" took its place in the window and on the shelves at Martha Merrell's Books in Waukesha, where owner Norman Bruce said customers have been anxious for its arrival.
VIDEO:Gov. Scott Walker's book released
"We've had calls coming in asking if we've got the book, and it's ready for sale today," Bruce said.
But even before reading a word of it, Walker supporters and critics alike told WISN 12 News they believe there's something more to the release of this book.
"I think it says something about his aspirations for presidency," Jim said.
"Don't candidates for president write books?" Claire asked.
In interviews connected with the book release, the governor has done little to slow that presidential speculation.
"You're certainly not ruling that out," WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott said to the governor.
"I don't rule anything out," Walker said.
Local political analysts Wainscott spoke with said the book puts the governor in position for a possible White House run.
"If you want to run for president, there's a checklist. And one item on that checklist is write a book," UW-Milwaukee government affairs Professor Mordecai Lee said.
"Whether he runs or not, every potential presidential candidate likes to put out a book," said Charles Franklin of the Marquette University Law school.
But for now, the more immediate concern may be how well it sells.
"Are you interested in reading it?" Wainscott asked.
"I might be, yes, because I like him as a governor," Jim said.
"Something that's on your reading list, or not?" Wainscott asked.
"No, not on my reading list. No," Nancy Stone said.
First the governor faces a re-election race in Wisconsin next year, and Democrats have already lashed out at the book.
The one declared Democrat in that race, Mary Burke, posted to Twitter on Tuesday, "Unintimidated? That makes two of us."
Walker devotes an entire chapter to what he believes Mitt Romney's campaign did wrong in the 2012 election and explains what he said are the lessons Republicans can learn for the future.