Quellborne

Quellborne holds the gravel gravel banks and Gundvarr holds the cart weighing yard on the road above them, and the porterage schedule was revised in 818 without the wharves hearing of it until the first pack train refused to load. Every Aurelmarch shipper can recite what porterage cost before the revision, and all of them still ship.

One of the Staple's four chartered yards has been let without a break since 787 to a principal Quellborne records only as an account, and every action brought out of that yard since has been against a house on the Emberrun. The rent arrives quarterly by draft on Lysathiel's counting house, which is as far as the public record goes.

Solmiryn's agency charters were divided in the first century and Quellborne has worked two of them since, under a Ferrovane confirmation that still recites Solmiryn as grantor. Ythelas objects to the reading aloud whenever it is read out and asks for nothing else.

Quellborne acts for the survey on the assessment of Sekhemra's grass and has re-entered the camp on the roll in each of the last nine years, at a rate Sekhemra pays late and under protest. The catfolk house points at Pardahni's herds, who pay nothing at all, and the census answers that the item is outstanding and has been for six hundred years.

The Staple's pack trains to the Forge hire Sekhemra's riders for the badlands stage at nine crowns the train, which is the whole of what the Wintering's Marchward side earns. Quellborne renews annually, has used no other company since 810, and will not put its reason in writing.

Quellborne brokered Aldemarch's settlement of 819 and took its fee as a standing right of pre-emption over Aldemarch's Solmarch granary surplus, exercised twice since. Aldemarch's clerks think the fee high and concede that the pre-emption is why the barges keep loading.

The second of Quellborne's chartered yards has entered an appearance against Brakkenstone in the headwater suit on behalf of shippers it declines to name. Quellborne's filing gives the barges delayed and the tonnage lost, and no owner for either.

Quellborne brokered the match that brought a Corvantine heir, raised Undivided, into Kazdrun in 799, and took its fee as a nine-year exemption at the weighing yard. At the clan assembly the heir is seated below the youngest gate-holder, may not answer for the gate, and holds Kazdrun as a wardship rather than by right, which four neighbouring holds have already put in writing.

The four agency yards behind the transfer sheds are fed on Ironfurrow rye, 900 hundredweight a year down the oxen road, and Quellborne pays in cartage licences for the Emberrun barges instead of coin. Vaddrek would rather have the coin and takes the licences because the alternative is selling into Gundvarr's market.

A cargo broken out of barges at Quellborne is cleared again where the Emberrun reaches salt water, and Quellborne's four agency yards buy Serathorne's through-clearance by the season rather than argue it hull by hull. The season price rose a fifth at the last revision and Quellborne's yards paid it without lodging an appeal.