OF SELRORNE. 597 



former elections used to run thus," Vos .... rogamus 

 quatinus eligendum ex nobis unum confratrem de gremio 

 nostrOy licentiam vestram nobis concedere digne- 

 mini." 



LETTER XX. 



PRIOR MORTON dying in 1471, two canons, by them- 

 selves, proceeded to election, and chose a prior; but 

 two more (one of them Berne) complaining of not being 

 summoned, objected to the proceedings as informal ; 

 till at last the matter was compromised that the bishop 

 should again, for that turn, nominate as he had before. 

 But the circumstances of this election will be best 

 explained by the following extract : 



REG. WAYNFLETE, torn. ii. pars i ma , fol. 7. 



Memorandum. A. D. 1471. August 22. 



William Wyndesor, a canon-regular of the Priory of 

 Selborne, having been elected prior on the death of 

 brother John, appeared in person before the bishop in 

 his chapel at South Waltham. He was attended on 

 this occasion by Thomas London and John Bromes- 

 grove, canons, who had elected him. Peter Berne and 

 William Stratfeld, canons, also presented themselves at 

 the same time, complaining that in this business they 

 had been overlooked, and not summoned ; and that 

 therefore the validity of the election might with reason 

 be called in question, and quarrels and dissensions 

 might probably arise between the newly chosen prior 

 and the parties thus neglected. 



After some altercation and dispute they all came to 

 an agreement with the new prior, that what had been 

 done should be rejected and annulled; and that they 

 would again, for this turn, transfer to the bishop their 

 power to elect, order, and provide them another prior, 

 whom they promised unanimously to admit. 



