proposed. A magistrate of the tribe happening to be an elector,
may substitute any one of his own order to execute his other
function. The magistrates of the prime magnitude being thus
elected, shall receive the present charge of the tribe."

If it be objected against this order that the magistrates to
be elected by it will be men of more inferior rank than those of
the hundreds, in regard that those are chosen first, it may be
remembered that so were the burgesses in the former government,
nevertheless the knights of the shire were men of greater
quality; and the election at the hundred is made by a council of
electors, of whom less cannot be expected than the discretion of
naming persons fittest for those capacities, with an eye upon
these to be elected at the tribe. As for what may be objected in
point of difficulty, it is demonstrable by the foregoing orders,
that a man might bring 10,000 men, if there were occasion, with
as much ease, and as suddenly to perform the ballot, as he can
make 5,000 men, drawing them out by double files, to march a
quarter of a mile. But because at this ballot, to go up and down
the field, distributing the linen pellets to every man, with
which he is to ballot or give suffrage, would lose a great deal
of time, therefore a man's wife, his daughters, or others, make
him his provision of pellets before the ballot, and he comes into
the field with a matter of a score of them in his pocket. And now
I have as good as done with the sport. The next is --

The eleventh order, "Explaining the duties and functions of
the magistrates contained in the list of the prime magnitude, and
those of the hundreds, beginning with the lord high sheriff, who,
over and above his more ancient offices, and those added by the