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BEAUFORT was bishop of Winchester from 1405 to 1447 and 
yet, notwithstanding this long episcopate, only tom. i. of “ Beaufort’s 
. Register” is to be found. This loss is much to be regretted, as it 
must unavoidably make a gap in the history of Selborne priory, 
and perhaps in the list of its priors. 
In 1410 there was an election for a prior, and again in I4II. 
In vol. i. p. 24, of “ Beaufort’s Register,” is the instrument of 
the election of John Wynchestre to be prior—the substance as 
follows :— 7 
Richard Elstede, senior canon, signifies to the bishop that 
brother Thomas Weston, the late prior, died October 18, 1410, and 
was buried November 11th. That the bishop’s license to elect 
having been obtained he and the whole convent met in the 
chapter-house, on the same day about the hour of vespers, 
to consider of the election; that brother John Wynchestre, 
then sub-prior, with the general consent, appointed the 12th of 
November, ad horam ejusdem diet capitularem, for the business ; 
when they met in the chapter-house, Jost missam de sancto Spiritit, 
solemnly celebrated in the church ;—to wit, Richard Elstede, 
Thomas Halyborne, John lLemyngton, sacrista; John Stepe, 
cantor; Walter Ffarnham, Richard Putworth, celerarius; Hugh 
London, Henry Brampton, alias Brompton; John Wynchestre, 
senior, John Wynchestre, junior; then “Proposito primitis 
verbo Dei,” and then ympno “Veni Creator Spiritus” being 
solemnly sung, cum ‘‘ versiculo et oratione,’’ as usual, and his letter 
of license, with the appointment of the hour and place of election 
being read, alta voce, in valvis of the chapter-house; John 
Wynchestre, senior, the sub-prior, in his own behalf, and that of 
all the canons, and by their mandate, “quasdam monicionem 
et protestacionem in scriptis redactas fecit, legit, interposuit ” 
—that all persons disqualified, or not having right to be 
present, should immediately withdraw, and protesting against their 
voting, &c. ; that then having read the constitution of the general 
council “ Quia propter,” and explained the modes of proceeding 
to election, they agreed unanimously to proceed “per viam seu 
