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Enginewrights' Hall

Also called Enginewrights · the wrights

The engine trade of Sarrum, which did not exist a century ago, was admitted to the Articles in 4576 and now sets its own rates; it keeps a school for members' children and pays sickness more generously than other halls.

The engine-builders' guild of Sarrum, whose roll carries the names of the old Redlode bloomery families. It took a share in the Deepcut in 4589 in lieu of a debt. The engine-building trade body whose work includes aerial chambers and certified elements.

Named with it

  • Guildmaster Richard Saye · head
  • Thomas Dace, 'Iron Tom' · former hammerman, prize fighter
  • Enginewright Nicholas Quarles of the pump works · 4541

Ties

In the chronicle

At the table

Holds the Deepcut jointly with the Bank Council and Hartfell. Copies withdrawal numbers before breakfast. The Crown surveyor cannot inspect without their books, and four of his reports were inaccurate because they supplied the figures. It serves every hall and could stop all of them at once, a position the Articles were never shaped for. Saye treats demarcation as engineering and will close a shop before running a doubtful boiler. It denies responsibility for fights in its yard while renting the lamps. Has declined every offer to sell its Deepcut share; offers a wrights' apprenticeship that draws clever children from the Combe Royal school.