Belgrund

Every load of burial salt going west off Vorlaine pays Belgrund's four coppers per hundredweight, on a schedule raised in 806 and again in 819. Vorlaine's carters keep a copy of the older schedule and read it aloud at the gate, which alters nothing and is done at every crossing.

Drennhold marches its relief columns down the Emberdeep road twice a year and pays the bar nothing, holding that a garrison in transit is not a load. Belgrund has assessed the columns at 260 crowns a year since 814, enters the arrears, and lodges the whole sum as a claim while sending no demand.

Ashgrave's yard sits in Belgrund's shoulder on a yearly tenancy at sixty crowns with no gate rights, so the agency's mules stand outside the bar overnight from November. Belgrund has refused a gate three times, and the rent has stood where it was set in 809.

Belgrund buys 400 hundredweight of barley and its main incomes winter hay off Umbermere's each autumn, brought down the cavern road and weighed at the bar on the hold's own beam. Umbermere's factors have twice asked to weigh on their own and been told that the beam is the toll.

Vantrose has advanced against Belgrund's takings twice, in 813 and 817, at a tenth on the weighbridge receipts, which makes a Corvantine vault the creditor of a Kazdrunn toll. Belgrund settled the second advance in cut metal, and Vantrose's book still has no column for it.

Three coast houses retained Talionwe to challenge Belgrund's fodder surcharge on Forge-bound carts and lost, on the pleading that hay sold at the gate is a sale and not a toll. Belgrund raised the surcharge again the following season, and Talionwe declines to take the case a second time on the same facts.