[MR] Proposal for reducing the backlog of scrolls (fwd)

[Craig Levin]

> But there are some persona for which arms are surely inappropriate at 
> any time or place. Peasants, merchants, craftsmen, Jews, Gypsies, and 
> other minorities come to mind.

Actually, I can find members of all of those groups who assumed arms in
period. It wasn't uncommon in lots of central Europe & Italy. See Gayre of
Gayre and Nigg's The Nature of Arms.

Pedro