Richard III found in Leicester Car Park

We congratulate our colleagues in the Richard III Society on bringing their hunt to such a splendid conclusion.

Letters Patent and Arms of Keith Lawson Mitchell

Another very fine set of arms is awaiting display on the HSS Gallery. In the meantime, here is a preview of the Arms and Letters Patent of Keith Lawson Mitchell of Elgin. In the usual manner, I have masked personal details.

Archbishop Conti

Archbishop Conti was honoured on Friday evening by a group of his friends in the Order of Malta, several of whom are members of the HSS. The event was organised by members Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (FHSS) and Peter McCann of Castlecraig, and guests who are members of the Society included the Grand Prior, Ian Scott of Ardross, Herbert Coutts and Liam Devlin.

The gift with which His Grace was presented was a glass bowl engraved by Alison Kinnaird with the three coats of arms for which Archbishop Conti is responsible: the diocese of Aberdeen, the archdiocese of Glasgow, and his personal arms designed by Archbishop Bruno Heim and altered by the Lyon Court. A close-up of the beautiful glassware will follow but in the meantime here is one of the presentation. 

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We welcome another new member in France, Mr. D.J. Menzies of Gironde.

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Welcome to Mr K. Mitchell of Elgin.

News and Salve

Another splendid issue of "Tak Tent" arrived this morning, despite all the fuss about snow and weather in the UK. It includes an invitation to a day's excursion to Aberdeen on April 27th 2013 and a reminder that the March lecture, by Dr Katie Stevenson of the University of St Andrews, has been brought forward to March 23rd to avoid a clash with Holy Saturday.

We welcome Avril Brown of  Laurieton, Australia, who is now our newest member.

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Happy New Year.

We welcome two new members who have joined since the start of 2013:

K. McCorkle of Los Angeles and
Fr. W. Fleenor of Richmond, Virginia.

Can I remind members that next year's subscriptions are due on April 1st; to help the accounts, cheques which arrive before that will be retained until that date so that they appear in the correct year's records.