Great House · also Company & trade
House Alderton
Also called the Road Spears · the Aldertons · Alderton
A Great House with interests in posting, long-haul carriage, escort contracts and keeping routes open; its correspondents know the county road south of Ketton Bar well and can sometimes find carts when Harrowgate cannot.
A Great House of west-road carriage, inland water, posting and escort contracts, keeping long routes honestly open. A Great House whose money goes into reclamation where carriage and posting make the recovered land useful.
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At the table
Giles is among the most travelled nobles and knows inns better than many carriers. Its influence ends almost exactly where the carrier turns at Ketton Bar.