Maeryvane

Kazdrun keeps a chartered company of forty men and its work comes through Maeryvane's rather than from anyone who will sign for it. Maeryvane has instructed Kazdrun in eleven matters since 796 AF, all entered under one charter number, and Kazdrun takes the instructions without asking whose money it is.

A house absent from the survey cannot plead at Ferrovane, so Meketri's Corvantine business is done by Maeryvane at thirty crowns a matter. Maeryvane has appeared for it nine times since 802 AF, seven of those against Halvresk, and every one of those instruments went in under its own name.

Maeryvane has entered a claim on Meldrath's oak, pleading a charter the Corvantine confirm rather than issue and which predates the survey by four centuries. Maeryvane says it acts on instructions and will not say whose, and it waited until the Meldrath plate went cold to file.

Maeryvane musters and quarters a company of four hundred under a commission that names Karagunn as issuer and no principal at all. Maeryvane draws the pay through a Corvantine mint and the men appear in the survey as road labour.

Forty mast trees and eight hundred feet of oak knee timber come down from Maeryvane to Draveholt's mast ponds every winter, rafted along the coast because the ridge road will not take the length. The quantity is written in Corvantine survey feet and paid in Amasekan shaku, so there are two copies of the contract and they do not agree.

Maeryvane's ironletters supply the argument that a rented caravan stage is not an assessable holding, which has kept the Cistern Road off the survey through two re-surveys. The fee is the beef contract at a price fixed for twenty years, and neither house has put the connection between the two in writing.

Salt beef and oats come up the Cistern Road to Maeryvane, four wagons a month out of Pardahni's pens. Pardahni's drovers water at the combes on the way and Maeryvane's foresters count the beasts through the charter gate in both directions.

Maeryvane's agency has appeared for eleven years in the re-survey suit over the ridge-foot boundary the Solmarch moved in the flood, and declines in writing, each time it is asked, to name the party paying its costs. Aldemarch and Ferrovane of Ferrovane are the only two houses the ground could belong to, and both of them go on retaining Maeryvane for other work.

The Ward's watch keeps the charter road and the timber convoys as far as the ridge gap for a tenth of the timber fee, paid at the survey post. Maeryvane enters each payment in its own roll as a courtesy and not a rent, and the ward clerks copy the entry out without comment.

Solmiryn's weighbridge toll has been collected by Maeryvane's agency for four hundred years under a charter belonging to a plate that cracked. The receipts are made out to Solmiryn and lodged at the Corvantine survey post, where no magistrate has yet been asked to read one.

Solmiryn's gate crews were victualled on Maeryvane charter beef for the last decades before the plate cracked, and the final two years of it stand unpaid on the tally. Maeryvane produces the tally at every re-survey as evidence that the ridge gap answered to Maeryvane, and the surveyors write the tally down without ruling on it.