r silver balls, in all sixty; and into the side urns sixty gold
balls, divided into each according to the different number of the horse
and foot; that is to say, if the horse and the foot be equal, equally,
and if the horse and the foot be unequal, unequally, by an arithmetical
proportion. The like shall be done the second day of the muster for
the second list, except that the censors shall put into the middle urn
thirty-six gold balls with twenty-four blanks, in all sixty; and sixty
gold balls into the side urns, divided respectively into the number of
the horse and the foot; and the gold balls in the side urns at either
ballot are by the addition of blanks to be brought even with the
number of the ballotants at either urn respectively. The censors having
prepared their notes, as has been shown, and being come at the day
appointed into the field, shall present a little urn to the lord high
sheriff, who is to draw twice for the letters to be used that day,
the one at the side urns, and the other at the middle. And the censors
having fitted the urns accordingly, shall place themselves in certain
movable seats or pulpits (to be kept for that use in the pavilion) the
first censor before the horse urn, the second before the foot urn, the
lord lieutenant doing the office of censor pro tempore at the middle
urn; where all and every one of them shall cause the laws of the ballot
to be diligently observed, taking a special care that no man be suffered
to come above once to the urn (whereof it more particularly concerns
the sub-censors, that is to say, the overseers of every parish, to be
careful, they being each in this regard responsible for their respective
parishes) or to draw above one ball, which if it be gold, he is to
present to the censor, who shall look upon the letter; and if it be not
that of the day, and of the respective urn, apprehend the party, who for
this or any other like disorder is obnoxious to the phylarch."

This order being observed by the censors, it is not possible for the
people, if they can but draw the balls, though they understand nothing
at all of the ballot, to be out. To philosophize further upon this art,
though there be nothing more rational, were not worth the while, because
in writing it will be perplexed, and the first practice of it gives
the demonstration; whence it came to pass that the orator, after some
needless pains in the explanation of the two foregoing orders, betaking
himself to ex