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Ashdown's Bank

Also called Ashdown bank · the great house bank of Ashdown · the bank

House Ashdown's bank, the largest of the eleven on the Bank Council and the house's principal instrument, managed by different hands from the house's land.

The house bank of the Ashdowns and the largest of the eleven banks on the Bank Council.

Named with it

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At the table

Grace Ashdown sits on the Council in her own right and has twice voted it against her own family over calling in estate paper. About a third of the eleven-mile milk ring is held by Ashdown or Ashdown's creditors. The house and the bank occasionally diverge.