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Richard Glene, Prior, died on the ölst ot' Jauiiary, 

 1475-6* 



On the Ist of February,1375-6, the Sub-prior and Con- 

 vent addressed a letter from their Chapter House and 

 under their common seal to William Wayneflete, Bishop 

 of Winchester, informing him of the death of their Prior, 

 Richard Glene, on the previous day, and soliciting him for 

 licence to elect another. The Bishop issued his licence, 

 dated the 9th of February, from his house in the parish of 

 S. Olave, Suthwerk. On the 23rd of the same month, 

 the Sub-prior and Convent, fifteen in number, addressed 

 another letter from their Chapter House and under their 

 common seal to the Bishop, setting forth that, out of the 

 Superlative confidence which they had in his government, 

 they had unanimously elected him their arbitei", and sup- 

 plicating him to take this bürden upon him, and to choose 

 from among their Community as their future Prior one who 

 should be devout towards God, faithful to his patron, use- 

 ful to the House, and, as they hoped, affectionate to his 

 brethren and mindful of their interests. By an instrument 

 given under his seal in his manor of Waltham, on the 2 7th 

 of February, Bishop Wayneflete acknowledged the receipt 

 of this letter, and in virtue thereof nominated John Asshe, 

 a Canon of their Priory and one of their brethren, of the 

 Order of S. Augustine, and in the said Priory expressly 

 professed, of the lawful age, and in Priest's Orders, &c., to 

 the office of Prior, and to govern the said Priory. The 

 Sub-prior and Convent being informed of this, accepted 

 the said John Asshe, and, by an Instrument under their 

 common seal and dated in their Chapter House at Taun- 

 ton, certificd that they had elected John Exceter, a Canon 



* MS. llarl. c.yor., p, 14i. 

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