ceedings in the same, by removing a
knight or magistrate out of the house, under appeal to the Senate.

"The commissioners of the seal being three, whereof the third is
annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in chancery.

"The commissioners of the Treasury being three, whereof the third is
annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in the exchequer,
and every magistrate of this schedule has right to propose to the
Senate.

"But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory of this
commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in every council of
the Senate, and power either jointly or severally to propose in all or
any of them."

I have little in this order to observe and prove but that the strategus
is the same honor both in name and thing that was borne, among others,
by Philopemen and Aratus in the Commonwealth of the Achaeans; the like
having been in use also with the AEtolians. The orator, called otherwise
the speaker, is, with small alteration, the same that had been of former
use in this nation. These two, if you will, may be compared to the
consuls in Rome, or the suffetes in Carthage, for their magistracy is
scarce different.

The censors derive their power of removing a senator from those of
Rome, the government of the ballot from those of Venice, and that of
animadversion upon the ambitious, or canvass for magistracy, from both.

The signory, with the whole right and use of that magistracy to be
hereafter more fully explained, is almost purely Venetian.

The second part of the tropic is directed by--

The sixteenth order" Whereby the constitution of the councils being
four; that is to say, the Council of State, the Council of War, the
Council of Religion, and the Council of Trade, is rendered conformable
in their revolutions to that of the Senate. As: First, by the annual
election of five knights out of the first region of the Senate into the
Council of State, consisting of fifteen knights, five in every region.
Secondly, by the annual election of three knights out of the third
region of the Council of State, to be proposed by the provosts, and
elected by that council, into the Council of War, consisting of nine
knights, three in every region, not excluded by this election from
remaining members also of the Council of State. The four tribunes of
the people have right of session and suffrage in the Council of War.
Thirdly, by the annual election of four knights out