rmen thus elected have divers capacities; for, first, they
are justices of the peace for the term, and in consequence of their
election. Secondly, they are presidents of the wardmote and governors
each of that ward whereby he was elected. And last of all, these
magistrates being assembled together, constitute the Senate of the city,
otherwise called the court of aldermen; but no man is capable of this
election that is not worth L10,000. This court upon every new election
makes choice of nine censors out of their own number.

"The deputies in like manner being assembled together, constitute the
prerogative tribe of the city, otherwise called the common council, by
which means the Senate and the people of the city were comprehended, as
it were, by the motion of the national government, into the same wheel
of annual, triennial, and perpetual revolution.

"But the liveries, over and above the right of these elections by their
divisions mentioned, being assembled all together at the guild of the
city, constitute another assembly called the common hall.

"The common hall has the right of two other elections; the one of the
lord mayor, and the other of the two sheriffs, being annual magistrates.
The lord mayor can be elected out of no other than one of the twelve
companies of the first ranks; and the common hall agrees by the
plurality of suffrages upon two names, which, being presented to the
lord mayor for the time being, and the court of the aldermen, they elect
one by their scrutiny. For so they call it, though it differs from
that of the commonwealth. The orator or assistant to the lord mayor
in holding of his courts, is some able lawyer elected by the court of
aldermen, and called the recorder of Emporium.

"The lord mayor being thus elected, has two capacities: one regarding
the nation, and the other the city. In that which regards the city,
he is president of the court of aldermen, having power to assemble the
same, or any other council of the city, as the common council or common
hall, at his will and pleasure; and in that which regards the nation, he
is commander-in-chief of the three tribes whereinto the city is divided;
one of which he is to bring up in person at the national muster to the
ballot, as his vice-comites, or high sheriffs, are to do by the other
two, each at their distinct pavilion, where the nine aldermen, elected
censors, are to officiate by three in each tribe, according to the rules
and orders a