in three companies (beside that
of the provinces), with their captains, ensigns, and two tribunes of
the foot at the head of them. The first troop is called the Phoenix,
the second the Pelican, and the third the Swallow. The first company the
Cypress, the second the Myrtle, and the third the Spray. Of these again
(not without a near resemblance of the Roman division of a tribe) the
Phoenix and the Cypress constitute the first class, the Pelican and the
Myrtle the second, and the Swallow with the Spray the third, renewed
every spring by--

The one-and-twentieth order, "Directing, that upon every Monday next
ensuing the last of March, the deputies of the annual galaxy arriving at
the pavilion in the halo, and electing one captain and one cornet of the
Swallow (triennial officers) by and out of the cavalry at the horse urn,
according to the rules contained in the ballot of the hundred; and one
captain with one ensign of the Spray (triennial officers) by and out
of the infantry at the foot urn, after the same way of balloting,
constitute and become the third classes of the prerogative tribe."

Seven deputies are annually returned by every tribe, whereof three are
horse and four are foot; and there be fifty tribes: so the Swallow must
consist of 150 horse, the Spray of 200 foot. And the rest of the classes
being two, each of them in number equal, the whole prerogative (beside
the provinces, that is, the knights and deputies of Marpesia and
Panopea) must consist of 1,050 deputies. And these troops and companies
may as well be called centuries as those of the Romans; for the Romans
related not, in so naming theirs, to the number. And whereas they were
distributed according to the valuation of their estates, so are these;
which, by virtue of the last order, are now accommodated with their
triennial officers. But there be others appertaining to this tribe whose
election, being of far greater importance, is annual, as follows in

The twenty-second order, "Whereby the first class having elected their
triennial officers, and made oath to the old tribunes, that they
will neither introduce, cause, nor to their power suffer debate to be
introduced into any popular assembly of this government, but to their
utmost be aiding and assisting to seize and deliver any person or
persons in that way offending, and striking at the root of this
commonwealth, to the Council of War, are to proceed with the other two
classes of the prerogative tri