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===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">'''Sources/Ideas:'''</span>=== 
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English place names elements which have "restful" meanings, OFr <aise> 'place of ease' and OE <borg-steall> 'place of refuge'. Need sources.


Old French <repaire> 'retreat, place of retreat', found in the English name <Beaurepeir> 1231-1482 (Watts, s.n. Belper). <Beau> is OFr 'beautiful, comely'.

Cornish *<menehi> 'sanctuary', which appears in the name <Bodmyn> (1552, Watts s.n. Bodmin).


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=Precedents:=
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===From the July 2009 LoAR:===
Elizabet Alfinnsdottir. Household name House of Rigge Rest (see RETURNS for badge).
Submitted as ''House of Rig<u>g's</u> Rest//, no documentation was provided that the pattern <surname>'s + //rest'' is consistent with patterns of period English household names. Precedent from April 2002 says:
> No documentation was presented and none was found that ''Rest// is a plausible toponymic element in a period English placename. The LoI stated that "[a] rest is a stopping place, or a lodging place, as for travelers or pilgrims, according to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary". Ferrule noted that the COED (p. 544) dates this use of //rest'' to 1225. However, evidence that a word existed in English in period is not documentation that it is a plausible element in an English placename. As no member of the College could find any evidence that Rest was used as a toponymic in an English placename, it is not registerable in that use. [Hawk's Rest, Shire of, Atenveldt-R]
However, it is possible to construct a place name which is similar to the submitted form. There is a pattern of English placenames created by appending surnames to existing placenames. Examples of this include ''Chilton Foliot// 1227 (Watts, //A Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names//, s.n. Chilton Foliat), //Norton Malreward// 1238 (Watts, s.n. Norton), and //Saundford Curtenay// 1262 (Watts, s.n. Sampford). The surname //Rigg// is toponymic in origin (referring to a ridge). This element is also used in proper place names; there are three English cities, in Dorset, Hertfordshire, and Wiltshire, named Ridge. Watts, //Cambridge Dictionary of English-Place Names//, s.n. Ridge dates //la Rigge// to 1248-1487 and //Rigge// to 1195. For the other element, Reaney & Wilson, //A Dictionary of English Surnames//, s.n. Rest dates the patronymic byname //Rest// to 1447. Thus, //Rigge Rest// 'Rigge held by the Rest family' is a plausible English place name, acceptable for use as part of a household name. We've changed the name to //House of Rig<u>ge</u> Rest'' in order to register it.
[[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/07/09-07lar.html]]

===May 2009 Cover Letter:===
From Pelican: No More SCA-Compatibility
On the May 2008 Cover Letter, we ruled:
> Therefore, as of the May 2009 decisions meetings, we declare that no new name elements or name patterns will be ruled SCA-compatible, that all names previously ruled SCA-compatible are no longer SCA-compatible and that in order for them to be registered, documentation meeting the same standards as for non-SCA-compatible names will be required.
This ruling went into effect with this, the May 2009 Pelican meeting.
[[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/05/09-05cl.html]]


===Compiled Name Precedents: not documented as a placename element===
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|François la Flamme
|2002.04
|No documentation was presented and none was found that ''Rest'' is a plausible toponymic element in a period English placename. The LoI stated that "[a] rest is a stopping place, or a lodging place, as for travelers or pilgrims, according to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary". Ferrule noted that the COED (p. 544) dates this use of ''rest'' to 1225. However, evidence that a word existed in English in period is not documentation that it is a plausible element in an English placename. As no member of the College could find any evidence that ''Rest'' was used as a toponymic in an English placename, it is not registerable in that use.
''Rest'' has only been registered as a toponymic element a total of seventeen times (not including holding names based on a registered branch name). The most recent registration was of ''Household Stone's Rest'' (registered October 1998). The next most recent registration was in 1992. Therefore, the element ''Rest'' does not have the same level of popularity as elements that have been ruled SCA-compatible as toponymics in placenames, including ''Keep''. Lacking such continuous popularity, this element is not SCA compatible.
There are two differences between the elements ''Keep'' and ''-crest'', which are SCA compatible, and ''Rest'', which is not. As discussed in the November 2001 LoAR (s.n. ''Tristan Ravencrest''), there are examples of period bynames that use forms of ''keep'' and ''crest'', including ''Rogerus del Crest'' which Bardsley (p. 216 s.n. Crest) dates to 1379, and ''Thomas ate Kepe'' which Reaney & Wilson (p. 261 s.n. Keep) date to 1327. No bynames of this form have been found using a form of ''rest''. Also, ''Keep'' and ''-crest'' have been more popular in recent years than ''Rest''. It is these two main factors which grant ''Keep'' and ''-crest'' the benefit of the doubt and make them SCA compatible, where ''Rest'' is not. [Hawk's Rest, Shire of, 04/2002, R-Atenveldt]
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|Elsbeth Anne Roth
|1999.08
|No one was able to find documentation that ''-rest'' was used as an element in place names. [''see LoAR for complete discussion of hypothetical use of "rest"''] ['''Dragon's Rest, Shire of''', [http://sca.org/heraldry/loar/1999/08/lar.html 08/99], R-Artemisia]
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