Other
The Ladies
Also called Ladies
The belt's country wise-women, roughly one to every four or five parishes, who keep the terms of a district's arrangements from memory and are paid only in kind. They hold no office, no licence and no doctrine; a Lady is made by recognition, most often fetched by an existing Lady.
Named with it
- Mother Cecily of Barrow Ash
Ties
- the Concord relies on them for information but cannot endorse them
At the table
In land matters a Lady outranks the incumbent in practice. Oxford sets them under tolerated custom and Cambridge scorns them. When a valley sours under a Lady there is no procedure to clear her. They decline curse-work and send it to the Concord.