LAST EDITED ON Mar-27-07 AT 11:08 AM (EDT)
That's what it looked like to me--as he was listed in the story as "John Mayminster, fourth Viscomte MacRoss", though the 'subsequently dropped the capital "R"' bit puzzles me slightly--can you do that with a title?But a little stretch in the rather Byzantine system of English (and, by extension, all European) titlature can be accepted without too much nitpicking--I mean, how many people these days even know what a Viscount *is*, much less how it compares to the other various ranks?
Heraldry's fun, but I'm glad that we don't have to worry about it too much these days.
Though I rather miss the Latin mottos....
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea