for the people, if they can but draw the balls, though they
understand nothing at all of the ballot, to be out. To
philosophize further upon this art, though there be nothing more
rational, were not worth the while, because in writing it will be
perplexed, and the first practice of it gives the demonstration;
whence it came to pass that the orator, after some needless pains
in the explanation of the two foregoing orders, betaking himself
to exemplify the same, found the work done to his hand, for the
tribe, as eager upon a business of this nature, had retained one
of the surveyors, out of whom (before the orator arrived) they
had got the whole mystery by a stolen muster, at which in order
to the ballot they had made certain magistrates pro tempore.
Wherefore he found not only the pavilion (for this time a tent)
erected with three posts, supplying the place of pillars to the
urns, but the urns being prepared with a just number of balls for
the first ballot, to become the field, and the occasion very
gallantly with their covers made in the manner of helmets, open
at either ear to give passage to the hands of the ballotants, and
slanting with noble plumes to direct the march of the people.

Wherefore he proceeded to --

The tenth order, "Requiring of the deputies of the parishes,
that upon every Monday next ensuing the last of February, they
make their personal appearance, horse and foot in arms
accordingly, at the rendezvous of the tribe, where, being in
discipline, the horse upon the right, and the foot upon the left,
before the pavilion, and having made oath by holding up their
hands, upon the tender of it by the lord high sheriff, to make
election without favor, and of such only as they shall judge