Calligraphy from Mistress Michel to Mistress Philomene

Michel by the grace of all, Peer of the Realm, Baroness of the Court and Mentor of Atelier. To all the honorable who will look at the present page, greetings.

Those things are most pleasing in our offices, those most powerful to human contemplation, so that the services of clear-sighted loyalty be compensated by the antidote of grateful generosity and creativity. For while we look to the future in the merits of the faithful; while we provide their needs what is necessary to the mass of more intense loyalty and incline others by example more ardently and devotedly; to this indeed the Kingdom disposed us to preside, elevated us divinely to the honor of worldly endeavor, so that we disperse a knowledge descending universally from the highest head to persons of their accord.

According to the requirement of merits by which and how the venerable Order of the Laurels deserved to be commended by various recognition of art, they cannot be easily laid out individually. They at the time of the most serene Royal Majesties of Atlantia exercise the right, with the seal of Peerage for the public utility to dispose things prudently for the benefit of the kingdom.

Baroness Philomene de Lys has surpassed others in merit who have toiled to learn the craft of Calligraphy and Illumination. That she may increase her virtues, she must ascend to the Peerage, and though she was inscribed in divine service to Atelier, at the urging of the Kingdom, whom she showed herself so generous and kind to all that there was no one of the courts, among the outstanding or minor, who did not receive her generosity; a Peerage must be considered and contemplated.

Wishing therefore to acquiesce by the counsel of our peers, to the just and respectable wishes of the Kingdom in the custom of nobles, we release Philomene from her requirements, services, and seat as Apprentice within Atelier. Our heart is full of the strength of perpetual stability and cannot be withdrawn at any time. We have granted the present letters fortified by the protection of our seal. Dated in the Fifty sixth year of the Society, so say I Goodwife Michel