ais523 wrote:
particular, if a contract would be given a Rest (the equivalent of a Blot), every member of the contract would be given a Rest instead.
the Insulator (equivalent of today's Referee) was required to report the Fugitive status.
For those wondering how "Rest" and "Insulator" fit together: the primary currencies at the time were Notes, tracked by the Conductor, whose author evidently had a shameless disregard for mixed metaphors.