lready given to the censors of the rustic tribes. And the
tribes of the city have no other than one common phylarch, which is the
court of aldermen and the common council, for which cause they elect not
at their muster the first list called the prime magnitude.

"The conveniences of this alteration of the city government, besides the
bent of it to a conformity with that of the nation, were many, whereof
I shall mention but a few: as first, whereas men under the former
administration, when the burden of some of these magistracies lay
for life, were oftentimes chosen not for their fitness, but rather
unfitness, or at least unwillingness to undergo such a weight, whereby
they were put at great rates to fine for their ease; a man might now
take his share in magistracy with that equity which is due to the
public, and without any inconvenience to his private affairs. Secondly,
whereas the city (inasmuch as the acts of the aristocracy, or court of
aldermen, in their former way of proceeding, were rather impositions
than propositions) was frequently disquieted with the inevitable
consequence of disorder in the power of debate exercised by the
popular part, or common council; the right of debate being henceforth
established in the court of aldermen, and that of result in the common
council, killed the branches of division in the root. Which for the
present may suffice to have been said of the city of Emporium.

"That of Hiera consists as to the national government of two tribes, the
first called agoroea, the second propola; but as to the peculiar policy
of twelve manipuls, or wards divided into three cohorts, each cohort
containing four wards, whereof the wards of the first cohort elect for
the first year four burgesses, one in each ward, the wards of the second
cohort for the second year four burgesses, one in each ward, and the
wards of the third cohort for the third year four burgesses, one in each
ward, all triennial magistrates; by which the twelve burgesses,
making one court for the government of this city according to their
instructions by act of Parliament, fall likewise into an annual,
triennial, and perpetual revolution.

"This court being thus constituted, makes election of divers
magistrates; as first, of a high steward, who is commonly some person of
quality, and this magistracy is elected in the Senate by the scrutiny of
this court; with him they choose some able lawyer to be his deputy, and
to hold the court; an