llot, as he can make 5,000 men, drawing
them out by double files, to march a quarter of a mile. But because at
this ballot, to go up and down the field, distributing the linen pellets
to every man, with which he is to ballot or give suffrage, would lose
a great deal of time, therefore a man's wife, his daughters, or others,
make him his provision of pellets before the ballot, and he comes into
the field with a matter of a score of them in his pocket. And now I have
as good as done with the sport. The next is--

The eleventh order, "Explaining the duties and functions of the
magistrates contained in the list of the prime magnitude, and those of
the hundreds, beginning with the lord high sheriff, who, over and above
his more ancient offices, and those added by the former order, is
the first magistrate of the phylarch, or prerogative troop. The lord
lieutenant, over and above his duty mentioned, is commander-in-chief
of the musters of the youth, and second magistrate of the phylarch. The
custos rotulorum is to return the yearly muster-rolls of the tribe, as
well that of the youth as of the elders, to the rolls in emporium, and
is the third magistrate of the phylarch. The censors by themselves and
their sub-censors, that is, the overseers of the parishes, are to see
that the respective laws of the ballot be observed in all the popular
assemblies of the tribe. They have power also to put such national
ministers, as in preaching shall intermeddle with matters of government,
out of their livings, except the party appeals to the phylarch, or to
the Council of Religion, where in that case the censors shall prosecute.
All and every one of these magistrates, together with the justices of
peace, and the jurymen of the hundreds, amounting in the whole number to
threescore and six, are the prerogative troop or phylarch of the tribe.

"The function of the phylarch or prerogative troop is fivefold:

"First, they are the council of the tribe, and as such to govern the
musters of the same according to the foregoing orders, having cognizance
of what has passed in the congregation or elections made in the parishes
or the hundreds, with power to punish any undue practices, or variation
from their respective rules and orders, under an appeal to the
Parliament. A marriage legitimately is to be pronounced by the parochial
congregation, the muster of the hundred, or the phylarch. And if a
tribe have a desire (which they are to express at the m