Rest

WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki only to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources as linked below to verify the information and use them for your documentation. Revised {$revisiondate}.

Sources/Ideas:

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).

---

Precedents:

• Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
• Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

• Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

From the July 2009 LoAR:

Elizabet Alfinnsdottir. Household name House of Rigge Rest (see RETURNS for badge). Submitted as House of Rigg's 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 Rigge 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

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]
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, 08/99, R-Artemisia]

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Compatible.html