emplify the same, found the work done to his hand, for the
tribe, as eager upon a business of this nature, had retained one of
the surveyors, out of whom (before the orator arrived) they had got the
whole mystery by a stolen muster, at which in order to the ballot they
had made certain magistrates pro tempore. Wherefore he found not only
the pavilion (for this time a tent) erected with three posts, supplying
the place of pillars to the urns, but the urns being prepared with a
just number of balls for the first ballot, to become the field, and the
occasion very gallantly with their covers made in the manner of helmets,
open at either ear to give passage to the hands of the ballotants, and
slanting with noble plumes to direct the march of the people.

Wherefore he proceeded to--

The tenth order, "Requiring of the deputies of the parishes, that upon
every Monday next ensuing the last of February, they make their personal
appearance, horse and foot in arms accordingly, at the rendezvous of
the tribe, where, being in discipline, the horse upon the right, and the
foot upon the left, before the pavilion, and having made oath by holding
up their hands, upon the tender of it by the lord high sheriff, to make
election without favor, and of such only as they shall judge fittest
for the commonwealth, the conductor shill take three balls, the one
inscribed with these words (outward files), another with these words
(inward files), and the third with these (middle files), which balls he
shall cast into a little urn, and present it to the lord high sheriff,
who, drawing one, shall give the words of command, as they are thereupon
inscribed, and the ballot shall begin accordingly. For example, if the
ball be inscribed 'Middle files,' the ballot shall begin by the middle;
that is, the two files that are middle to the horse shall draw out first
to the horse urn, and the two files that are middle to the foot shall
draw out first to the foot urn, and be followed by all the rest of the
files as they are next to them in order. The like shall be done by the
inward, or by the outward files in case they be first called. And the
files, as every man has drawn his ball, if it be silver, shall behind
at the urn to countermarch to their places, but he that has drawn a gold
ball at a side urn shall proceed to the middle urn, where if the balls
he draws be silver he shall also countermarch, but if it be gold he
shall take his place upon a form set acro