Antangil: Page 40

[English Translation]
40                   History of the Kingdom

such as in the morning, singing a Psalm & giving thanks to the Lord for the blessings received both in the past & on this present day, praying Him to continue in them more & more, during the course of his life.
       This is the order he keeps in times of peace & rest: But when war breaks out, he dispenses with some of these exercises, observing; however, at all times, what is of piety & devine worship
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Of the manner of the assembly of the Council,
of their sessions & how business arises.

CHAP. X.

       WHEN it is necessary to assemble the council, a large bell is rung three times, which is atop a six story tower located at the corner of the square that can be heard from more than three leagues away.
       At the end of the last stroke, all the senators (who are housed around the grand square in superb houses that the public gives them as soon as they are called to this supreme dignity,

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