expeditions from time to time reported by him that was strategus
or general, or one of the polemarchs in that action; or at least
so far as the experience of such commanders may tend to the
improvement of the military discipline, which they shall digest
and introduce into the Senate; and if the Senate shall thereupon
frame any article, they shall see that it be observed, in the
musters or education of the youth. And whereas the Council of War
is the sentinel or scout of this commonwealth, if any person or
persons shall go about to introduce debate into any popular
assembly of the same, or otherwise to alter the present
government, or strike at the root of it, they shall apprehend, or
cause to be apprehended, seized, imprisoned, and examine,
arraign, acquit, or condemn, and cause to be executed any such
person or persons, by their proper power and authority and
without appeal.

The Council of Religion, as the arbiter of this commonwealth
in cases of conscience more peculiarly appertaining to religion,
Christian charity, and a pious life, shall have the care of the
national religion, and the protection of the liberty of
conscience with the cognizance of all causes relating to either
of them. And first as to the national religion: they shall cause
all places or preferments of the best revenue in either of the
universities to be conferred upon no other than such of the most
learned and pious men as have dedicated themselves to the study
of theology. They shall also take a special care that, by such
augmentations as be or shall hereafter be appointed by the
Senate, every benefice in this nation be improved at least to the
value of œ100 a year. And to the end that there be no interest at
all, whereby the divines or teachers of the national religion may