382 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



his body to decent sepulture, and having requested, according to 

 custom, leave to elect another, and having obtained it under your 

 seal, we, William Wyndesor, president of the convent, on the 

 29th of August, in our chapter-house assembled, and making a 

 chapter, taking to us in this business Richard ap Jenkyn, and 

 Galfrid Bryan, chaplains, that our said Priory might not by 

 means of this vacancy incur harm or loss, unanimously agreed 

 on August the last for the day of election; on which day, having 

 first celebrated mass, " De sancto spiritu," at the high altar, and 

 having called a chapter by tolling a bell about ten o' the clock, 

 we, William Wyndesor, president, Peter Berne, Thomas London, 

 and William Stratfeld, canons, who alone had voices, being the 

 only canons, about ten o ? the clock, first sung " Veni Creator," 

 the letters and license being read in the presence of many per- 

 sons there. Then William Wyndesor, in his own name, and 

 that of all the canons, made solemn proclamation, enjoining all 

 who had no right to vote to depart out of the chapter-house. 

 When all were withdrawn except Guyllery de Lacuna, in de- 

 cretis Baccalarius, and Robert Peverell, notary-public, and also 

 the two chaplains, the first was requested to stay, that he might 

 direct and inform us in the mode of election, the other, that he 

 might record and attest the transactions ; and the two last that 

 they might be witnesses to them. 



Then, having read the constitution of the general council 

 " Quia propter," and the forms of elections contained in it being 

 sufficiently explained to them by De Lacuna, as well in Latin as 

 the vulgar tongue, and having deliberated in what mode to pro- 

 ceed in this election, they resolved on that of scrutiny. Three 

 of the canons, Wyndesor, Berne, and London, were made scru- 

 tators : Berne, London, and Stratfeld, choosing " Wyndesor ; 

 Wyndesor, London, and Stratfeld, choosing Berne ; Wyndesor, 

 Berne, and Stratfeld, choosing London. 



They were empowered to take each other's vote, and then that 

 of Stratfeld; "et ad inferiorem partem angularem" of the 

 chapter-house, "juxta ostium ejusdem declinentes," with the 

 other persons, (except Stratfeld, who staid behind) proceeded to 

 voting, two swearing, and taking the voice of the third, in 

 succession, privately. Wyndesor voted first : " Ego credo Petrum 

 Berne meliorem et utiliorem ad regimen istius ecclesie, et in 

 ipsum consentio, ac eum nomino, &c. Berne was next sworn, 

 and in like manner nominated Wyndesor ; London nominated 



