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office, but would be found Guilty of a high crime & misdemeanor # for which in all likely hood his whole Fortune would not be sufficient to Compensate * Legaly he is in that Case deemd Liable to Fine & Ransom at the Kings Pleasure.
Nor is this Load of Responsibility all that the master has to Encounter his actual business as master is not inconsiderable, he is obligd to give directions in Person on the Commencement & during the Progress of every business of importance, it is the Lesser matters only or more properly those of General Routine that he can Safely intrust to his Deputy
he must himself put prepare agreements with moneyers for the Rate of Payment for their Labor on Every different occasion in which they are Employd as the Late master did for the Coinage of Bank Tokens, he must Consider of & Recommend a device for every new Coin or Token that is Put into hand & must Collect the information necessary for H. M. Ministers to Enable them
# the Proof of the Pyx is, per Judicium Terminandum, at which time it is Said agitur de vita & moribus, the master to Rest a condemnd man or to be free for ever Sr Richard Martin mss 1611.
* had a deficiency Equal to the Whole amount of the Remedy taken Place in the Recoinage of guineas in the Present Reign the Public would have Cost £300,000 Garbet