MAS 



MAS 



the crown, who orders all matters relat- 

 ing to the king's stables, races, breed of 

 horses ; and commands the equerries, and 

 all the other officers and tradesmen em- 

 ployed in the king's stables. His coaches, 

 horses, and attendants, are the king's, and 

 bear the king's arms and livery. 



MASTER of the rolls, a patent officer for 

 life, who has the custody of the rolls of 

 parliament, and patents which pass the 

 great seal, and of the records ofchancery, 

 as also commissions, deeds, and recogni- 

 zances, which, being made of rolls of 

 parchment, gave rise to the name. 



In absence of the chancellor he sits as 

 judge in the court ofchancery: at other 

 times he hears causes in the rolls chapel, 

 and makes orders ; but all hearings be- 

 fore him are subject to appeal before the 

 chancellor. He hath a writ of summons 

 to parliament, and sits on the second 

 wool-pack, next the lord chief justice. 



In his gift are the six clerks in chan- 

 cery, the examiners, three clerks of the 

 petty bag, and the six clerks of the rolls 

 chapel, where the rolls are kept. The 

 rolls house is for his habitation, &c. By 

 statute 23 George II. c. 25. 12001. per an- 

 num is directed to be paid to the master 

 ot the rolls. 



MASTER of a ship, the same with cap- 

 tain in a merchantman ; but in a king's 

 ship he is an officer who inspects the 

 provisions and stores, and acquaints the 

 captain of what is not good, takes parti- 

 cular care of the rigging and of the bal- 

 last, and gives directions for stowing the 

 hold; he navigates the ship under the di- 

 rections of his superior officer; sees that 

 the log and log-book be duly kept ; ob- 

 serves the appearances of coasts ; and 

 notes down in his journal any new shoal 

 or rocks under water, with their bearing 

 and depth of water, &c. 



MASTER at arms in a king's ship, an 

 officer who daily, by turns, as the cap- 

 tain appoints, is to exercise the petty offi- 

 cers and ship's company, to place and re- 

 lieve centinels, to see the candles and fire 

 put out according to the captain's orders, 

 to take care the small arms are kept in 

 good order, and to observe the directions 

 of the lieutenant at arms. 



MASTER of the Temple. Since the disso- 

 lution of the order of the Templars, the 

 spiritual guide and pastor of the temple 

 is so called, which was the denomination 

 of the founder and his successors. 



MASTER of the ivurdrobe, an officer un- 

 der the Lord Chamberlain, who has the 

 care of tb.e royal robes, as well as the wear- 



ing apparel, collar, George, and garter, ke^ 

 He has also the charge of all former kings' 

 and queens' robes remaining in the Tower, 

 all hangings, bedding, &.c. for the king's 

 house, the charge and delivery of velvet 

 and scarlet allowed for liveries. He has 

 under him a clerk of the robes, wardrobe 

 keeper, a yeoman, &c. 



MASTER, quartei\ See QUARTER. 



MASTERS and SERVANTS. In Lon- 

 don and other places, the mode of hiring 

 is by what is commonly called a month's 

 warning, or a month's wages ; that is, the 

 parties agree to separate, on either of 

 them giving to the other a month's no- 

 tice for that purpose, or in lieu thereof, 

 the party requiring the separation to pay 

 or give up a month's wages. But if the 

 hiring of a servant be general, without 

 any particular time specified, it will be 

 construed to be an hiring for a year cer- 

 tain ; and in this case, if the servant de- 

 part before the year, he forfeits all his 

 wages. And where a servant is hired for 

 one year certain, and so from year to 

 year, as long as both parties shall agree, 

 and the servant enter upon a second year, 

 he must serve out that year, and is not 

 merely a servant at will after the first 

 year. If a woman servant marry, she 

 must nevertheless serve out her term, 

 and her husband cannot take fyer out of 

 her master's service. 



If a servant be disabled in his master's 

 service, by an injury received through an- 

 other's default, the master may recover 

 damages for loss of his service. Which 

 is the foundation also of an action where 

 the servant, even though she is the child 

 of the master, is seduced. 



And a master may not only maintain 

 an action against any one who entices 

 away his servant, but also against the 

 servant ; and if, without any enticement, 

 a servant leaves his master without just 

 cause, an action will lie against another, 

 who retains him with a knowledge of such 

 departure. 



A master has a just right to expect 

 and exact fidelity and obedience in all his 

 lawful commands ; and to enforce this, 

 he may correct his servant in a reason- 

 able manner, but this correction must be 

 to enforce the just and lawful commands 

 of the master. 



In defence of his master, a servant may 

 justify assaulting another, and though 

 death should ensue, it is not murder, in 

 case of any unlawful attack upon his mas- 

 ter's person or property. 



Acts of the servant are, in many in- 



