"Every Monday next ensuing the last of February, the hundreds
meet at their respective tribe, and there elect the lords high
sheriff, lieutenant, custos rotulorum, the conductor, the two
censors out of the horse, the magistrates of the tribe and of the
hundreds, with the jurymen constituting the phylarch, and who
assist in their respective offices at the assizes, hold the
quarter-sessions, etc. The day following the tribe elects the
annual galaxy, consisting of two knights and three deputies out
of the horse, with four deputies out of the foot, thereby endued
with power, as magistrates of the whole nation, for the term of
three years. An officer chosen at the hundred may not be elected
a magistrate of the tribe; but a magistrate or officer either of
the hundred or of the tribe, being elected into the galaxy, may
substitute any one of his office in the hundred or in own order
to his magistracy or office in the hundred or in the tribe. This
of the muster is two days' work. So the body of the people is
annually, at the charge of three days' work and a half, in their
own tribes, for the perpetuation of their power, receiving over
and above the magistracies so divided among them.
"Every Monday next ensuing the last of March, the knights,
being 100 in all the tribes, take their places in the Senate.
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