[MR] A Question of Protocol

[David W.James]

On May 16, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Derrick Solomon wrote:

> and after years of thinking i knew protocol i ran into a twist this 
> past
> weekend regarding toasting at feast.  until saturday night my 
> experience
> has always been that the highest (by op) ranking peer in attendance
> offer a toast to their majesties, the next ranking peer toasted their
> highnesses (if applicable) and then the next would offer the toast to
> the hosting baron/baroness.  well, this weekend TE of the hosting 
> barony
> opened the toasting by toasting their majesties.  as quests of honor at
> high table this seemed wrong to me (not bad, just not right) and it was
> completely different then every feast i have been to in the past.

> somewhere in between all of our ideas is the right one.

> regards
> logan

	My experience echos Your Grace's.  And, while the SCA 'norm' that I 
learned was that the senior Peer make the first toast, I thing/suspect 
that having the local baron make the toast to their Majesties would 
make more sense to someone in period.

	I would love to see something about actual period practice; or even 
what some Tudor-era heraldic writers thought was the way it was done.  
They wrote down just about everything else that had to do with it, why 
not this? :-)

Kwellend-Njal