Antangil: Page 55

[English Translation]

                   of Antangil. Book two.             55

six levels that continue all around, to seat the assistants. For, even though there are not enough Judges to occupy all the places, it is done because they are used to hold the council when the King & the Senate visit the Provinces, which occurs almost every two years. The other sides are intended for the accommodation of the President, Councillors, Deputies, Clerks & Sergeants.
       Some other rooms are reserved for keeping by order the titles & documents of the Province.
       As for their sessions, the President places himself above the Tribunal, with half the Councilors on the right, & the other on the left, having a table covered with a scarlet tapis in front of him, on which there is paper & a writing desk, to write down (just as the King does) the Arrests & notable sentences.
       The Registar is at his feet with his two clerks, having a table with a tapis in front of him, the Sergeants lower down, armed with halberds, swords & daggers, & two executioners near the column, their whips in hand: who at the slightest command of the President, strip & punish the delinquents.
       Concerning the Advocates, they are in the lower seats, & when they want to speak, they
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