ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 36l 



In the year 1324 there was an election for a prior at Selborne; 

 when some difficulties occurring, and a devolution taking place, 

 application was made to Stratford, who was bishop of Winchester 

 at that time, and of course the visitor and patron of the convent 

 at the spot above-mentioned.* 



An extract from REG. STRATFORD. Winton. 



' P. 4. " Commissio facta sub-priori de Selebourne" by the 

 bishop enjoining him to preserve the discipline of the order in 

 the convent during the vacancy made by the late death of the 

 prior, (" super pastoris solatio destituta,") dated 4th. kal. Maii. 

 ann. 2 do. sc. of his consecration, [sc. 1324.] 



P. 6. " Custodia Prioratus de Seleburne vacantis," committed 



by the bishop to Nicholas de la , a layman, it belonging to 



the bishop "ratione vacationis ejusdem," in July 1324, ibid. 

 " negotium electionis de Selebourne. Acta coram Johanne Epis- 

 copo, &c. 1324 in negotio electionis de fratre Waltero de Insula 

 concanonico prioratus de Selebourne/' lately elected by the sub- 

 prior and convent, by way of scrutiny : that it appeared to the 

 bishop, by certificate from the dean of Alton, that solemn citation 

 and proclamation had been made in the church of the convent 

 where the election was held, that any who opposed the said elec- 

 tion or elected should appear. Some difficulties were started, 

 which the bishop overruled, and confirmed the election, and 

 admitted the new prior sub hac forma : 



" In Dei nomine Amen. Ego Johannes permissione divina, &c. 

 te Walterum de Insula ecclesie de Selebourne nostre dioceseos 

 nostrique patronatus vacantis, canonicum et cantorem, virum 

 utique providum, et discretum, literarum scientia preditum, vita 

 moribus et conversatione merito commendatum, in ordine sacer- 



a<i inquirenda vota singulorum constitutes, secreto et siugillatim requisiti ; tandem publicato 

 srrtttinio et facta votorum colectione inventum est, majorent et seniorem partem tocius capituli 



cte ecclesie in fratrem S. de B. dicte ecclesie canonicum unanimiter et concorditer concencisse ; 



1 sic, quaniio inventum omnes canonicos dicte ecclesie preter duos in fratrem, A. D. quibus 

 i majori parti eiigendum adquiescenter : frater k. supprior ecclesie memorate, juxta potes- 



m S. de B. in priorem ejusdem ecclesie elegit, sub hac forma ; "Ego frater supprior con- 

 nlualis ecclesie beate Marie talis loci, potestate et auctoritate mihi a toto conventu dicte ecclesie 



jorem et partem seniorem tocius capituli nostri in fratrem S. de B. virum providum unanimiter 

 concencisse, ipsum nobis et ecclesie nostre, vice tocius conventus, in priorem eiigendum ; et 

 eidem election! subscribe ; cui electioni omnes canonici nostri concencerunt, et siibstripserunt." 

 "Ego frater de C. presenti electioni concencio, et subscribe." Et sic de singulis electoribus 

 in cujus rei testimonium sigillum capituli nostri apponi fecimus ad presentes. 



* Stratford was bishop of Winchester from 1323 to 1333, when he was translated to Canterbury. 



