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Charles the Scholar wrote:

  > What was done in period?  I believe (without any justification) that
  > all servants wore the livery or badge of their employer.  Many also
  > carried something to identify their office.

Unfortunately I can't find the books, so I too will make unsupported 
statements. 

The theory that heralds wore the livery or badge of their employer works just 
fine except that not all heralds were in the employ of some lord.  There seem 
to have been "freelance heralds" who got to travel around and see the world 
(a working holiday studying heraldry) and also had certain perks like tax-
free status.  Somewhere, sometime, I believe the merchants of a town got 
tired of people passing themselves off as heralds for the benefits of free 
travel and tax avoidance, and asked their overlord to Do Something About It.

I see the freelance herald wandering around (possibly in a tabard semy of ex-
employers' arms, like one picture I've seen) as a most promising premise for 
a persona.

Pagan le Chaunster
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Jennifer Geard                         bloodthorn@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
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