MITHRIL AUCTION

You wanted to keep this private, but you posted a public auction of a rare and treasured commodity on the wall of the Inn for all to see, in an attempt to make as much profit as possible?  In all capital letters for your notice, no less?

I think you are confused as to the meaning of "Private."

The private matter was the situation about the license.

A question...

By the wording of the definition, anyone who receives coin in exchange for a good or service is a merchant.  Therefore, if a warrior who slays a creature, takes it's claw as a memento and then sells it to a wizard or mage because they wanted it for an ingredient in some odd magic... does that mean the warrior has to get a license just for that 1 transaction?

I cannot answer for the Chancellor, but the example you gave is logically valid. I discussed the same point from a different direction with several others. Occam's razor is ever sharp.

Is Occam the Chancellor's enforcer of trade rules?  Can this person answer the question then, or by the razor, are all disputes settled by combat?

Occam (also spelled Ockham) was a Scholar specializing in the Divine and a leading proponent of using logic to resolve discrepancies.  Had you applied yourself more assiduously to your studies of the Trivium, you would have recognized his name.