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from behind to the opposite of that of Ecclesiastics, & finally
lower on the front bench at the same side opposite
that of the Deputies of the Chiefs-Colleges put the Deputies
Cities & Chatelenies Subalterns. They were all
green and seated, except that they stood still, when His Ex
cellence & Deputies of the Cities & Châtellenies Subalter-
They take the oath. Baron de Winterfelt, the Count of
Maldeghem, the Knight of Heems State Secretary, the Bar-
on Thysebaert first Counsellor Pensioner of the City of
Ghent; the Hereditary Officers and the Kings of Arms resumed
the same places they had occupied at the Theater erected
in the Cathedral Church of St. Bavo, & the Noble Guard of
Archers, and that of the Halberdiers were also ranged from the
same way.

When everyone was thus placed, the Lieutenant of the State &
first King of Weapons stepped in the middle of the entrance of the Thea-
to the people, and cried aloud SILENCE, SILENCE,
SILENCE.

Then the Baron de Thysebaert first Councilor Pensio-
having received the hands of His Excellency the full
His Majesty read it aloud again,
To the Deputies of the Cities & Subordinate Chatelenies the sign
nature of the sacred hand of His Majesty to recognize and
ser. After he had given full power to his Excellency, the
Bishops of Ghent and Bruges approached the table for
to present to him the book of S. Gospels. And then the first Con-
Pensioner read aloud the form of the oath, of which
the copy is hereafter marked F. His Excellency being standing &
holding hands over the St. Gospels lent it to the Cities, & Cha-
Subaltern telenies in the name of His Imperial Majesty & Catholics as Count of Flanders.

The bishops having resumed their places, & His Excellency being
handing over in his sole covered, the Secretary of State of
Heems also read aloud to the Deputies of Cities & Dice
Chatelenies Subalterns of the Province the oath of Vasse-
loyalty & obedience, the form of which is
They also came to lend it to Sôn
Excellency each in turn, according to the rank, which he
singing one after the other at the table on the platform, and raising a hand.
Her Excellency welcomed them all in the same way, that She