Great House
House Wychmere
Also called the Hazel Rods · Wychmere
A Great House associated with old boundary knowledge, minor waters, woodland settlement and interpreting old surveys; its money backs antiquarian work, ride proposals and timber claims at Wychwood's edge.
A Great House of hedged country, minor waters, wood-edge settlement, survey custom and boundary knowledge. A Great House with interests in reclamation at the wood edge.
Named with it
Ties
- its charters treated by the Woodmote as evidence, not instruction
At the table
The Duke collects local maps and patronises antiquarians, useful in boundary disputes and vulnerable to forged charters. Its agents are received seriously by the woodmote but not obeyed; when sensible it sends people who can sit through a court in the open air.