“The games being ended, and the muster dismissed, the captain of the
troop or company shall repair with a copy of the list to the lord
lieutenant of the tribe, and the high constable with a duplicate of
the same to the custos rotulorum, or muster-master general, to be also
communicated to the censors; in each of which the jurymen, giving a
note upon every name of an only son, shall certify the list is without
subterfuge or evasion; or, if it be not, an account of those upon whom
the evasion or subterfuge lies, to the end that the phylarch or the
censors may animadvert accordingly.
“And every Wednesday next ensuing the last of February, the lord
lieutenant, custos rotulorum, the censors, and the conductor, shall
receive the whole muster of the youth of that tribe at the rendezvous of
the same, distributing the horse and foot with their officers, according
to the directions given in the like case for the distribution of the
elders; and the whole squadron being put by that means in battalia,
the second game of this commonwealth shall begin by the exercise of the
youth in all the parts of their military discipline according to the
orders of Parliament, or direction of the Council of War in that case.
And the £100 allowed by the Parliament for the ornament of the muster
in every tribe, shall be expended by the phylarch upon such artificial
castles, citadels, or the like devices, as may make the best and most
profitable sport for the youth and their spectators.
“Which being ended, the censors having prepared the urns by putting
into the horse-urn 220 gold balls, whereof ten are to be marked with
the letter M and other ten with the letter P; into the foot-urn 700 gold
balls, whereof fifty are to be marked, with the letter M and fifty with
the letter P; and after they have made the gold balls in each urn, by
the addition of silver balls to the same, in number equal with the horse
and foot of the stratiots, the lord lieutenant shall call the stratiots
to the urns, where they that draw the silver balls shall return to
their places, and they that draw the gold balls shall fall off to the
pavilion, where, for the space of one hour, they may chop and change
their balls according as one can agree with another, whose lot he likes
better.
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