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chapter-house to the high altar of the church ; l and the 

 hymn being sung, dictisque versiculo et oratione consuetis in 

 hac parte, Thomas Halyborne, mox tune ibidem, before the 

 clergy and people of both sexes solemnly published the 

 election in vulgari. Then Richard Elstede, and the whole 

 convent by their proctors and nuncios appointed for the 

 purposes, Thomas Halyborne and. John Stepe, required several 

 times the assent of the elected ; " et tandem post diutinas in- 

 terpellationes, et deliberationem providam penes se habitam, 

 in hac parte divine nolens, ut asseruit, resistere voluntati," 

 within the limited time he signified his acceptance in the 

 usual written form of words. The bishop is then suppli- 

 cated to confirm their election, and do the needful, under 

 common seal, in the chapter-house. November 14, 1410. 



The bishop, January 6, 1410, apud Esher in camera 

 inferiori, declared the election duly made, and ordered 

 the new prior to be inducted for this the archdeacon 

 of Winchester was written to ; u stallumque in choro, et 

 locum in capitulo juxta morem preteriti temporis," to be 

 assigned him ; and everything beside necessary to be done. 



" BEAUFORT'S REGISTER," VOL. I. 



P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia 

 de Selebourn, cum Capella, xxx marc, decima xlib. iii. fol. 

 Vicaria de Selebourn non taxatur propter exilitatem. 



P. 9. Taxatio bonorum temporalium religiosorum in 

 Archidiac. Wynton. 



Prior de Selebourn habet meneria de 



Bromdene taxat. ad ........ xxx s. ii d. 



Apud Schete ad xvii s. 



P. Selebourne ad vi lib. 



In civitate Wynton de reddit vi lib. viii ob. 



Tannaria sua taxat ad x lib. s. 



Summa tax. xxxviii lib. xiiii d. ob. Inde decima . . vi lib. s. q. ob. 



1 It seems here as if the canons used to chair their new elected prior from 

 the chapter-house to the high altar of their convent church. In Letter XXI., on 

 the same occasion it is said " et sic canentes dictum electum ad majus altare 

 ecclesie deduximus, ut apud nos moris est." [G. W.] 



