Farrowgate

Six hundred quarters of Farrowgate wheat go to Halvresk's every year under a victualling contract executed in 141 AF and still running on that seal, the house that sealed it having not existed for six centuries. The receivership delivers, Halvresk patrols the Hundred's road, and both sides lodge the same account at Ferrovane annually to keep the arrangement on the record.

Brakkenstone supplied Farrowgate's mint with silver for the first ninety years after the signing, and when the Farrowgate plate cracked the dies stayed in the mint vault. Brakkenstone claims them against the unpaid last delivery in the only Corvantine action it has ever brought, adjourned since 214 AF.

Ferrovane has administered Farrowgate under receivership since 118 AF and holds its court roll, its market charter and the mint keys. Ferrovane's position is that the receivership runs until the plate is amended, and the plate has not been amended since the sky came down on it.

Valdrenne carries forty thousand crowns of first-century Farrowgate mint paper on its book at full face value, the largest single asset the counting-house shows. Valdrenne has never written it down, and its own creditors read the entry every year and say nothing about it either.

Plough irons, mill gear and coulters go from the Ironfurrow iron furnace to the Hundred's tenants, about nine hundred crowns a year, billed to a receivership account eleven years in arrears. Vaddrek keeps delivering because the tenants are the only Corvantine customers who will take dwarf ironwork without a Ferrovane test.

Aelvarion holds thirty-one Farrowgate mint bonds, issued in 46 AF and outstanding since, and enters them at the Forge every ninth year to keep the claim alive. What Aelvarion is after is the market franchise at Farrowgate, worked by three Corvantine houses since the plate cracked without any of them producing a grant.