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the crown, who orders all matters relating 
to the king’s stables, races, breed of horses ; 
and commands the equerries and all the 
other officers and tradesmen employed 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 par- 
liament, and patents which pass the great 
seal, and of the records of chancery, as also 
commissions, deeds, and recognizances, 
which, being made of rolls of parchment, 
gave rise to the name. 
In absence of the chancellor he sits as 
judge in the court of chancery : at other 
times he hears causes in the rolls Chapel, 
and makes orders ; but all hearings before 
him are subject to appeal before the chan- 
cellor. He hath a writ of summons to par- 
liament, and sits on the second wool-pack 
next the lord chief justice. 
In his gift are the six clerks in chancery, 
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 annum is di- 
rected to be paid to the master of the rolls. 
Master of a ship, the same with captain 
in a merchant-man j 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 particular care of the rig- 
ging and of the ballast, and gives directions 
for stowing the hold ; he navigates the ship 
under the directions of his superior officer; 
sees that the log and log book be duly 
kept ; observes the appearances of coasts ; 
and notes down in his journal any new 
shoal or rocks under water, with their bear- 
ing and depth of w'ater, &c. 
Master at arms in a king’s ship, an offi- 
cer who daily, by turns, as tire captain 
appoints, is to exercise the petty officers 
and ships company, to place and relieve 
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 dissolu- 
tion of the order of the Templars, the spiri- 
tual guide and pastor of the temple is so 
called, which was the denomination of the 
founder and his successors. 
Master of the wardrobe, an officer under 
the Lord Chamberlain, who has the care of 
tlie royal robes, as well as the wearing . ap< 
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pare!, collar, George, and garter, &c. He 
has also the charge of all former kings and 
queens robes remaining in the Tower, all 
hangifigs, bedding, &c. for the king’s house, 
the charge and delivery of velvet and scar- 
let allowed for liveries. He has under him 
a clerk of the robes, wardrobe keeper, a 
yeoman, &c. 
Master, quarter. See Quarter. 
Masters and Servants. In London 
and other places, the mode of hiring is by 
what is commonly called a month’s warn- 
ing, or a month’s wages ; that is, the parties 
agree to separate on either of them giving 
to the other a month’s notice for that pur- 
pose, 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 speci- 
fied, it will be construed to be an hiring for 
a year certain ; and in this case, if the ser- 
vant depart 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 neverthe- 
less serve out her term, and her husband 
cannot take her out of her master’s ser- 
vice. 
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 wtiere 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 ac- 
tion 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 reasonable 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 master’s per- 
son or property. 
Acts of tlie servant are, in many instances, 
deemed acts of the master; and he is an- 
