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( 20 ) The Liquid or Wet Meaſure, a Log is half a pint, Hin is three Quarts, a Reth is 9 Gallons 3 Quarts, Pot or Sextary, is a pint and a half, a Firkin is four Gallons and a half.

We read in the Scripture of Legions.

Atth. 26. 53. Thinkeſt thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he ſhall preſently give me more than 12 Legions of Angels. 12 Legions is thouſand ſeven hundred and fifty.

Luke 8.30 Jeſus asks him, what is thy Name, he  Legion; because many Devils were in him.

Romulus, who built Rome, his Legion conſiſted 3000 Foot Men, and 300 Horſe-Men.

After, in Julius Cæſar's time, which was 150 years before Chriſt, a Legion was 5000  and 300 Horſe-men.

Heſyeh faith, a Legion was 6666.

After, in Auguſtus, and Tiberius Ceſar's Chriſt being born and ſuffer'd, a Legion was thouſand Foot, and 730 Horſe-Men.

Of Offices and Conditions of Men.

Atriarch is a Father of a Family, as  Iſaac, Jacob and his ſons. Judges or Tempora for a time, ſupream Governours appointed o the Children of Iſrael. King, over a Nation Kings after the falling of the ten Tribes of  Elders or Senators, the ſeventy, or Sanbedrim,, Provoſts, or Sheriffs, Judges or Rulers, ſuch determined Controverſies in particular Cities.