Dispatch of the Chamberlain's Office, Regarding the Matter of the Mercer Compact

Let it be recorded, in the seven hundred and forty-third year of the Court's continuous stewardship of this city, on the fourteenth day of the second quarter of the regnal calendar as maintained by the Chamberlain's Office:

That the petition submitted by the parties styling themselves the Mercer Compact, requesting formal reception before the Inner Court for the purpose of negotiating access to the lower vaults of the Auldgate district, has been considered.

That the Chamberlain, acting under standing delegated authority of the Court in matters of access and reception, has reviewed the petition against the rolls of precedent maintained in the Office of Record.

That the petition is, on this date, denied.

The grounds are as follows: the Mercer Compact has not established sufficient prior relationship with the Court to warrant the convening of a reception at Inner Court level. The threshold for Inner Court reception is set at three confirmed prior engagements of record. The Compact presents two. The third, claimed in the petition's appendix, cannot be confirmed against the Office of Record's held copies and is therefore not counted.

The Compact is advised that the appropriate path forward is a submission to the Outer Court clerk, who maintains regular hours on the second and fourth days of each quarter.

This decision is not subject to appeal within the current quarter.

Sealed and posted by order of the Chamberlain's Office.

The fourteenth day, second quarter, year 743.