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that brother Thomas Weston, the late prior, died October 

 1 8th, 1410, and was buried November nth. 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 I2th of November, ad horam 

 ejusdem diei capitularem, for the business : when they met 

 in the chapter-house, post missam de sancto Spiritu, solemnly 

 celebrated in the church ; to wit, Richard Elstede ; 

 Thomas Halyborne ; John Lemyngton, sacrista; John 

 Stepe, cantor ; Walter Ffarnham ; Richard Putworth, 

 celerarius ; Hugh London ; Henry Brampton, alias Bromp- 

 ton; John Wynchestre, senior; John Wynchestre, junior; 

 then "Proposito primitus verbo Dei," and then ympno 

 "Veni Creator Spiritus" being solemnly sung, cum "ver- 

 siculo 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, et interposuit" that all persons disqualified, or not 

 having right to be present, should immediately withdraw ; 

 and protesting against their voting, etc. 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 formam 

 simplicis compromissi " ; when John Wynchestre, sub- 

 prior, and all the others (the commissaries under-named 

 excepted) named and chose brothers Richard Elstede, 

 Thomas Halyborne, John Lemyngton the sacrist, John 

 Stepe, chantor, and Richard Putworth, canons, to be com- 

 missaries, who were sworn each to nominate and elect a fit 

 person to be prior : and empowered by letters patent 

 under the common seal, to be in force only until the 

 darkness of the night of the same day ; that they, or the 

 greater part of them, should elect for the whole convent, 

 within the limited time, from their own number, or from 



