Secondly, whereas the city
(inasmuch as the acts of the aristocracy, or court of aldermen,
in their former way of proceeding, were rather impositions than
propositions) was frequently disquieted with the inevitable
consequence of disorder in the power of debate exercised by the
popular part, or common council; the right of debate being
henceforth established in the court of aldermen, and that of
result in the common council, killed the branches of division in
the root. Which for the present may suffice to have been said of
the city of Emporium.
"That of Hiera consists as to the national government of two
tribes, the first called agoroea, the second propola; but as to
the peculiar policy of twelve manipuls, or wards divided into
three cohorts, each cohort containing four wards, whereof the
wards of the first cohort elect for the first year four
burgesses, one in each ward, the wards of the second cohort for
the second year four burgesses, one in each ward, and the wards
of the third cohort for the third year four burgesses, one in
each ward, all triennial magistrates; by which the twelve
burgesses, making one court for the government of this city
according to their instructions by act of Parliament, fall
likewise into an annual, triennial, and perpetual revolution.
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