the rulers of hundreds in Israel, to the mora or military part of
the tribe in Lacedaemon, and to the century in Rome. The jurymen,
being two in a hundred, and so forty in a tribe, give the
latitude allowed by the law for exceptions. And whereas the
golden balls at this ballot begin to be marked with letters,
whereof one is to be drawn immediately before it begins, this is
to the end that the letter being unknown, men may be frustrated
of tricks or foul play, whereas otherwise a man may bring a
golden ball with him, and make as if he had drawn it out of the
urn. The surveyors, when they had taken copies of these lists,
had accomplished their work in the hundreds.
So a hundred is the second division of land occasioned by the
second collection of the people, whose civil and military
functions proper to this place are comprised in the foregoing
order.
Having stated the hundreds, they met once again by twenties,
where there was nothing more easy than to cast every twenty
hundreds, as they lay most conveniently together, into one tribe;
so the whole territory of Oceana, consisting of about 10,000
parishes, came to be cast into 1,000 hundreds, and into fifty
tribes. In every tribe at the place appointed for the annual
rendezvous of the same, were then, or soon after begun those
buildings which are now called pavilions; each of them standing
with one open side upon fair columns, like the porch of some
ancient temple, and looking into a field capable of the muster of
some 4,000 men; before each pavilion stand three pillars
sustaining urns for the ballot, that on the right hand equal in
height to the brow of a horseman, being called the horse urn,
that on the left hand, with bridges on either side to bring it
equal in height with the brow of a footman, being called the foot
urn, and the middle urn, with a bridge on the side toward the
foot urn, the other side, as left for the horse, being without
one; and here ended the whole work of the surveyors, who returned
to the Lord Archon with this --
ACCOUNT OF THE CHARGE
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