the lot, proceeds in
this manner:

The first secretary with an audible voice reads first the list of the
magistrates to be chosen for the day, then the oath for fair election,
at which the senators hold up their hands; which done, another secretary
presents a little urn to the strategus, in which are four balls, each
of them having one of these four inscriptions: "First seat at the upper
end," "First seat at the lower end," "Second seat at the upper end,"
"Second seat at the lower end." And look which of them the strategus
draws, the secretary pronouncing the inscription with a loud voice, the
seat so called comes accordingly to the urns: this in the figure is the
second seat at the upper end. The manner of their coming to the side
urns is in double files, that being two holes in the cover of each side
urn, by which means two may draw at once. The senators therefore S, S-S,
S are coming from the upper end of their seats H, H-H, H to the side
urns L, L. The senators T T-T are drawing. The senator V has drawn a
gold ball at his side urn, and is going to the middle urn F, where
the senator W, having done the like at the other side urn, is already
drawing. But the senators X, X-X, X having drawn blanks at their side
urns, and thrown them into the bowls Y Y standing at the feet of the
urns, are marching by the lower end into their seats again; the senator
a having done the like at the middle urn, is also throwing his blank
into the bowl b and marching to his seat again: for a man by a prize at
a side urn gains no more than right to come to the middle urn, where, if
he draws a blank, his fortune at the side urn comes to nothing at all;
wherefore he also returns to his place. But the senator C has had a
prize at the middle urn, where the commissioner, having viewed his ball,
and found the mark to be right, he marches up the steps to the seat
of the electors, which is the form d set across the tribunal, where he
places himself, according as he was drawn, with the other electors e, e,
e drawn before him. These are not to look back, but sit with their faces
toward the signory or state, till their number amount to that of the
magistrates to be that day chosen, which for the present, as was shown,
are six: wherefore six electors being made, they are reckoned according
as they were drawn: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, in
their order, and the first six that are chosen are the first order of
electors.

The first order