Company & trade
Wharf company
Also called Long Wharf · the wharf companies
Banners and seals
The company holding the wharf and the Enginemead sheds, which stand on unplanned old coal working. It has offered eleven pounds since 4574 for information closing an entry into the Rows and has never raised the sum.
The company operating Sarrum's two-mile Long Wharf and its warehousing lanes.
Named with it
- Wharfinger Tom Rees
Ties
- member of the Guild Hall
- raised the river discharge with the Dyers
- trusts Hob Larkin's ground book
- Brethren keep their own figure from it
In the chronicle
- · The Paid Denial
- · The Ninefields pay-room scheme
- · The Enginemead shed subsidence and survey of 4601
- · The Tramroad Clearance
- · The Wharf Concession
At the table
Upon lamp oil for four lanes it spends more than the council spends on its whole watch. It wants a mouth closed, that is to say an entry into the Rows, and cares for nothing beyond it, which makes it serviceable cover for the made-ground commission. In 4593 two men, paid to lie, answered its bounty on entries from the Cut. Its survey of 4601, eleven acres and three days underground, is the paper to distrust; it has declined ever since to survey the underground again, and will not open unplanned ground. In 4602 it tried to clear the riders from its section of the tramroad and was beaten within eleven days; in 4610 it conceded that wages be paid outside the public house.
- Kind
- Company & trade
- Region
- Sarrum and Its County
- Founded
- c. 4325 A.C.
- Standing
- Present day
- Seat and places
- the Long Wharf, Sarrum; the wharf and Enginemead sheds, Sarrum
- Named in
- Book IV
- Spoken of
- 15 times in the volumes