He had other duties besides his expensive troubles and looking after his people when they needed it. Marriages for example. As baron, he was required to give acknowledgement and approval whenever major inter-clan affairs took place, which meant giving a nod of approval when this daughter married that son or other, and bearing witness to 'statements of intent'. Under law, he was meant to attend each wedding but that was hilariously unrealistic, so tradition and custom filled in where the law failed to meet reality. He just had either the prospective beaus themselves or their representatives give him their statements of intents in person, basically swearing an oath which he would then acknowledge as legitimate. He also had the job of acknowledging parentage and clan membership of this or that newborn child.