By 1331 he is recorded as a king's clerk and thereafter remained in royal service but only on minor administrative duties.

The captain may assume minor administrative duties and lead the team when instructors are not available.

Till we do, we discharge minor duties for minimum pay.

That he was assigned this minor duty, now, did not mean he was forgotten.

Pascual was crossing the living room, engaged on some minor duty.

He remembered a minor duty ashore, he tells his amused shipmates, and so decided against dying.

As assistant to the warder, he did record and account keeping, ordering of stores, and other minor administrative duties.

Yet he kept me by him, training me in many of the minor duties of his vast laboratory.

There is a contingent of helots on board to assist with the minor duties.