OF SELBORNE. 583 



make a gap in the History df Selborne Priory, and per- 

 haps in the list of its priors. 



In 1410 there was an election for a prior, and again 

 in 1411. 



In vol. i. p. 24, of Beaufort's Register, is the instru- 

 ment of the election of John Wynchestre to be prior 

 the substance as follows : 



Richard Elstede, senior canon, signifies to the bishop 

 that brother Thomas Weston, the late prior, died Octo- 

 ber 18th, 1410, and was buried November llth. 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 12th of 

 November, ad horam ejusdem diei capitularem, for the 

 business: when they met in the chapter-house, post 

 missam de sancto Spiritu f solemnly celebrated in the 

 church ; to wit, Richard Elstede; Thomas Halyborne; 

 John Lemyngton, sacrista ; John Stepe, cantor ; Wal- 

 ter Ffarnham ; Richard Put worth, celerarius ; Hugh 

 London ; Henry Brampton, alias Brompton ; 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, &c. that then having read the constitution of 

 the general council " Quia propter," and explained the 

 modes of proceeding to election, they agreed unani- 

 mously to proceed " per viam seu formam simplicis 



