JANIZARIES, at Rome, are officers or pensioners of the pope, called also participantes, on account of certain rites or duties which they enjoy in the annates, bulls, or expéditions, and the Roman chancery.—Most authors are mistaken in the nature of their office: the truth is, they are officers of the third bench or college of the Roman chancery. The first bench consists of writers, the second of abbreviators, and the third of janizaries; who are a kind of correctors and revisors of the pope's bulls.