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convent, resigned his priorship into the hands of the 

 bishop. Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. pars. i ma , fol. 157. 



March 28, A.D. 1468. " In quadam alta camera juxta 

 magnam portam manerii of the bishop of Wynton de 

 Waltham coram eodem rev. patre ibidem tune sedente, 

 Peter Berne, prior of Selborne, ipsum prioratum in sacras, 

 et venerabiles manus of the bishop, viva voce libere re- 

 signavit : and his resignation was admitted before two 

 witnesses and a notary-public. In consequence, March 

 29th, before the bishop, in capella manerii sui ante dicti 

 pro tribunal! sedente, comparuerunt fratres" Peter Berne, 

 Thomas London, William Wyndesor, and William Pay- 

 nell, alias Stretford, canons regular of the priory, " capitu- 

 lum, et conventum ejusdem ecclesie facientes; ac jus et 

 voces in electione futura prioris dicti prioratus solum et 

 in solidum, ut asseruerunt, habentes ; and after the bishop 

 had notified to them the vacancy of a prior, with his 

 free license to elect, deliberated awhile, and then, by way 

 of compromise, as they affirmed, unanimously transferred 

 their right of election to the bishop before witnesses. 

 In consequence of this the bishop, after full deliberation, 

 proceeded, April yth, " in capella manerii sui de Waltham," 

 to the election of a prior : " et fratrem Johannem Morton, 

 priorem ecclesie conventualis de Reygate dicti ordinis S ri 

 Augustini Wynton. dioc. in priorem vice et nomine 

 omnium et singulorum canonicorum predictorum elegit, in 

 ordine sacerdotali, et etate licita constitutum, &c." And 

 on the same day, in the same place, and before the same 

 witnesses, John Morton resigned to the bishop the prior- 

 ship of Reygate viva voce. The bishop then required his 

 consent to his own election ; " qui licet in parte renitens 

 tanti reverendi patris se confirmans," obeyed, and signified 

 his consent oraculo vive vocis. Then was there a mandate 

 citing any one who would gainsay the said election to 

 appear before the bishop or his commissary in his chapel at 

 Farnham on the second day of May next. The dean of 

 the deanery of Aulton then appeared before the chancellor, 

 his commissary, and returned the citation or mandate 

 dated April 22d, 1468, with signification, in writing, of 



