Rows watch

Eleven well-paid watchmen who hold the four lane ends of the Bonded Rows by night and answer to the halls rather than the council; raised after the Rows were nearly breached in 4489.

Named with it

• Serjeant Aubrey Fenn · serjeant for nine years

Ties

• paid by the Halls
• at odds with the insurers

At the table

Fenn recruits from the pit villages, varies patrol patterns weekly and believes a factor's office was entered from the cellar via the Cut; the halls refused him leave to open the floor in 4618. Insurers regard him as obstructive and have twice had a serjeant dismissed; Vance's Company worked well by asking Fenn what he cannot see.