commonwealth.
The orators being arrived, every one as soon as might be, at
the rendezvous of his tribe, gave notice to the hundreds, and
summoned the muster which appeared for the most part upon good
horses, and already indifferently well armed; as to instance in
one for all, the tribe of Nubia, where Hermes de Caduceo, lord
orator of the same, after a short salutation and a hearty
welcome, applied himself to his business, which began with --
The eighth order requiring "That the lord high sheriff as
commander-in-chief, and the lord custos rotulorum as
muster-master of the tribe (or the orator for the first muster),
upon reception of the lists of their hundreds, returned to them
by the high constables of the same, presently cause them to be
cast up, dividing the horse from the foot, and listing the horse
by their names in troops, each troop containing about 100 in
number, to be inscribed First, Second, or Third troop, etc.,
according to the order agreed upon by the said magistrates; which
done, they shall list the foot in like manner, and inscribe the
companies in like order. These lists upon the eve of the muster
shall be delivered to certain trumpeters and drummers, whereof
there shall be fifteen of each sort (as well for the present as
otherwise to be hereafter mentioned) stipendiated by the tribe.
And the trumpeters and drummers shall be in the field before the
pavilion, upon the day of the muster, so soon as it is light,
where they shall stand every one with his list in his hand, at a
due distance, placed according to the order of the list, the
trumpeters with the lists of the horse on the right hand, and the
drummers with the lists of the foot on the left hand; where
having sounded awhile, each of them shall begin to call and
continue calling the names of the deputies, as they come into the
field, till both the horse and foot be gathered by that means
into their due order. The horse and foot being in order, the lord
lieutenant of the tribe shall cast so many gold balls marked with
the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., as there be troops of horse in the
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