346 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
OPS Ee Dine Wap eae, See. 
PRIOR MORTON dying in 1471, two canons, by themselves, 
proceeded to election, and chose a prior; but two more (one 
of them Berne) complaining of not being summoned, objected to 
the proceedings as informal; till at last the matter was com- 
promised that the bishop should again, for that turn, nominate 
as he had before. But the circumstances of this election will be 
best explained by the following extract :— 
REG. WAYNELETE, tom. II., pars 1™., fol. 7. 
Memorandum. A.D. 1471. August 22. 
William Wyndesor, a canon-regular of the priory of Selborne, 
having been elected prior on the death of brother John, appeared 
in person before the bishop in his chapel at South Waltham He 
was attended on this occasion by Thomas London and John 
Bromesgrove, canons, who had elected him. Peter Berne and 
William Stratfeld, canons, also presented themselves at the same 
time, complaining that in this business they had been overlooked, 
and not summoned ; and that therefore the validity of the election 
might with reason be called in question, and quarrels and dissen- 
sions might probably arise between the newly chosen prior and the 
parties thus neglected. 
After some altercation and dispute they all came to an agreement 
with the new prior, that what had been done should be rejected and 
annulled ; and that they would again, for this turn, transfer to the 
bishop their power to elect, order, and provide them another prior, 
whom they promised unanimously to admit. 
The bishop accepted of this offer before witnesses; and on 
September 27th, in an inner chamber near the chapel above- 
mentioned, after full deliberation, chose brother Thomas Fairwise, 
vicar of Somborne, a canon-regular of St. Augustine in the priory 
of Bruscough, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, to be prior 
of Selborne. The form is nearly as above in the last election. 
The canons are again enumerated ; W. Wyndesor, sub-prior, P. 
