Umbermere

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.

Nothing grows on tufa, so the whole of Vorlaine's bread comes down the cavern road off Umbermere's flats, 700 hundredweight a year. Half is settled in coin and half in a quarterly list of who has been enquiring after Umbermere's cistern records, which Umbermere reads and does not acknowledge receiving.

Seven hundred sacks of barley and lentils come up the caravan road to Brannhold for the pilgrim season, traded against oil and taken at the wharf price. The assembly's fifth is paid on the landing and Brannhold puts it into the cost of a burial.

Nine hundred sacks of barley and lentils a year go up the cavern road from Umbermere to Sarventhal's vault house, settled in cistern water rather than coin. Umbermere books the draw and Sarventhal books the sacks, and the two totals have not agreed since 774.

Three thousand sacks of barley and lentils a year go up the cavern road to Drennhold's three road forts, weighed on the Kazdrunn hundredweight and charged against the Reach share. The conversion is disputed in writing every year and paid at the old figure while the dispute runs.

In a short year Umbermere sells surface draw to the road forts at the rate set by the records office plus carriage, and Drennhold's clerks enter the whole payment as carriage. The underground passage records office maintains in writing that the water was Kazdrunn water to begin with.

Drennhold's road forts hold Umbermere's cisterns and the cavern stages under them for a fifth of the lentil crop. Umbermere does not ask what Drennhold's clerks write down about the households that bring it in.

One barley crop in six goes to the barrack rows on the hardpan before any of Umbermere' harvest reaches a market, delivered on dates Corvane's commissariat sets. Umbermere's reeves keep to the dates.

Umbermere has filed twice at the water records office against the levy, on the ground that a mustering ground is not a cistern and cannot be charged upon the share. Both filings were heard, neither was decided, and the sixth has gone in on time throughout.

Corvane's barrack rows hold the southern cavern stages and the badlands approaches above Umbermere, which is what the sixth of the crop buys. Nothing has come over the hardpan since 788, and Corvane says so at every renewal.

Vaethril buys bread, lentils and fodder by the stage from Umbermere, at the stage price and not the field price. Vaethril's steward has asked for the field price in each of the last six years.

Meldrath's still enrols Umbermere's water-clerks and still issues certificates under a seal with no living name behind it, at forty silver a term. Umbermere keeps paying because a certificate refused at the Forge would void nine years of cistern filings, and three other houses have asked Meldrath's remaining lecturers whether the seal can be transferred.