Land Agent/Surveyor

$Land Agent\Surveyor - Stephan Matthias$

Stephan Matthias is often to be found conducting business for the Steward or the Colonel, somewhere about the Manor…

Stephan Matthias is the Land Agent and Surveyor of Colonel Prichard’s estates. He works with the two other Agents, Thomas Edwards and his brother Evan Edwards. He is quite an ambitious man and has come very far from his fairly humble beginnings as the son of a woodsman, living on the edge of Canton Moor.

He was very fortunate to have been taught to read and write by a generous Puritan cleric, at a free school just outside Cardiff. From these beginnings he eventually found his way into the employment of Phillip Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke (a fact that isn’t lost on other servants!). However, with the fall of the Herberts for their support of Parliament, he ended up looking for work at a hiring fair. It was fortunate for him that Edward Prichard recognised him and took him on.

At present, he is saving to buy a house so that he can marry his betrothed, but he really should be more careful about his eavesdropping on the Colonel’s private conversations – he has already been reprimanded several times and if he’s caught again, he could find himself back at the hiring fair – but then, he is very good at his job!

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