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8.Besides one Chief Magistrate, there are 10 Principal Magistrates, 59 Magistrates and 10 Special Magistrates sitting in 10 magistracies.
9.Led by the Chief Magistrate, the team consists of eight Principal Magistrates, 61 Permanent Magistrates and 11 Special Magistrates sitting in nine different locations.
10.Nothing was to be heard but grumbling and imprecations against the Flemings, the Cardinal de Bourbon, the Chief Magistrate, Madame Marguerite of Austria, the beadles, the cold, the heat, the bad weather, the Bishop of Paris, the Fools’ Pope, the pillars, the statues, this closed door, yonder open window—to the huge diversion of the bands of scholars and lackeys distributed through the crowd, who mingled their gibes and pranks with this seething mass of dissatisfaction, aggravating the general ill-humour by perpetual pin-pricks.


