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 expeditious, 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.