Religious order · also Charity & hospital
Brothers of Mercy
Also called Mercy house · the Mercy house · Mercy brothers · the Mercy list
An order of eleven brothers who heal by rite, answering to their own rule and the Holy Seat rather than the Oxford chapter. Three can work the rite, perhaps forty times a week in all, and Brother Felix alone decides who is chosen from the list.
A body in Black Stone that keeps the Mercy list of applicants; Brother Felix has twice engaged an establishment to verify that an applicant was who the application said.
Named with it
- Brother Felix
Ties
- answer to the Holy Seat
- spring draw granted by the Guild Hall
- not appointed by the Oxford chapter
In the chronicle
At the table
Money they will not take, and miracles they do not claim; hence the chapter has never found cause to look their way. Of the two hundred or so names Mow sends them in a year, perhaps eleven are taken. A standing draw of water from the Black Stone spring, granted by the Guild Hall in 4573, is what they live upon; and beyond this work they nurse fever and long sickness, and put the destitute in the ground. Standing gets a company no precedence on the list. Employers will offer large sums to see a name moved higher, and the reputable companies turn them down. Men speak of the brothers as 'a body that owes nothing to anybody'.
- Kinds
- Religious order, Charity & hospital
- Region
- Sarrum and Its County
- Founded
- c. 4500 A.C.
- Standing
- Present day
- Seat and places
- a house on the edge of Black Stone; eastern edge of Black Stone, Sarrum
- Named in
- Book IV
- Spoken of
- 16 times in the volumes
Where the volumes speak of it
- 6.5 The Spring in Black Stone, and the Guild Hall That Holds It
- 8.3 The Brothers of Mercy, and the List
- 8.7 The Surgeons, the Apothecaries, and Medicine by Class
- 8.9 Death, Burial, Mourning, and What a Room Can Afford
- 9.9 Gang Wars, Truces, and the Streets Between
- 13.9 Matters Standing Open, and What Each Is Actually Worth
