immediately before the ballot, and so the letter unknown to the
ballotants, they can use no fraud or juggling; otherwise a man
might carry a gold ball in his hand, and seem to have drawn it
out of an urn. He that draws a gold ball at any urn, delivers it
to the censor or assessor of that urn, who views the character,
and allows accordingly of his lot.

The strategus and the orator having drawn for the letters,
the urns are prepared accordingly by one of the commissioners and
the two censors. The preparation of the urns is After this
manner. If the Senate be to elect, for example, the list called
the tropic of magistrates, which is this:

1. The Lord Strategus;

2. The Lord Orator;

3. The Third Commissioner of the Great Seal;

4. The Third Commissioner of the Treasury;

5. The First Censor;

6. The Second Censor;

this list or schedule consists of six magistracies, and to every
magistracy there are to be four competitors; that is, in all
four-and-twenty competitors proposed to the house. They that are
to propose the competitors are called electors, and no elector
can propose above one competitor: wherefore for the proposing of