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MARLOWE
Private Office ◆ By Audience Only
The House Tenets

The four tenets,
and what is forsworn.

The conduct of the house is governed by four pillars, each held in Latin because Latin yields no easy translation. Each is older than any present member of the line.

Held in Force — XI Generations◆Last Reaffirmed MMXXVI
I.

Patientia

We hold positions for generations, not for fiscal years. Time is the only ally that can never be bought, only inherited. The Group is comfortable in instruments which require a century to mature, and is less interested in those which do not.

Lat. — Endurance, the willing kind.
II.

Discretio

The names of our principals, our counterparties, and our beneficiaries do not leave this house. They have not, in eleven generations, and they shall not in the twelfth. The records are kept; they are not shown.

Lat. — The cutting-apart of what may be said from what may not.
III.

Auctoritas

We are not an intermediary. When the Group commits, the Group decides. There is no committee above the head of house, and no head of house above the ledger. Decisions are made at the seat and recorded by hand.

Lat. — Authority that is not delegated, because it cannot be.
IV.

Consequentia

Capital deployed by the House is deployed in earnest. Counterparties who treat the matter otherwise have, historically, regretted the misapprehension. The Group does not threaten; it concludes.

Lat. — That which follows, irrespective of preference.

What the House is not.

  • The House is not a fund. It admits no outside subscribers.
  • The House is not an intermediary. It does not act on behalf of others.
  • The House is not a counsellor. It declines requests for opinion.
  • The House is not a publisher. It issues no letter, prospectus, or report.
  • The House is not a member of any league or association of houses.
  • The House is not a party to disputes which it has not initiated.