into their due order. The horse and foot being in order, the lord
lieutenant of the tribe shall cast so many gold balls marked with
the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., as there be troops of horse in the
field, together with so many silver balls as there be companies,
marked in the same manner, into a little urn, to which he shall
call the captains; and the captains drawing the gold balls shall
command the horse, and those that draw the silver the foot, each
in the order of his lot. The like shall be done by the conductor
at the same time for the ensigns at another urn; and they that
draw the gold balls shall be cornets, the left ensigns."

This order may puzzle the reader, but tends to a wonderful
speed of the muster, to which it would be a great matter to lose
a day in ranging and marshalling, whereas by virtue of this the
tribe is no sooner in the field than in battalia, nor sooner in
battalia than called to the urns or the ballot by virtue of --

The ninth order, "Whereby the censors (or the orator for the
first muster) upon reception of the lists of the hundreds from
the high constables, according as is directed by the seventh
order are to make their notes for the urns beforehand, with
regard had to the lists of the magistrates, to be elected by the
ensuing orders, that is to say, by the first list called the
prime magnitude, six; and by the second called the galaxy, nine.
Wherefore the censors are to put into the middle urn for the
election of the first list twenty-four gold balls, with
twenty-six blanks or silver balls, in all sixty; and into the
side urns sixty gold balls, divided into each according to the
different number of the horse and foot; that is to say, if the
horse and the foot be equal, equally, and if the horse and the