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

 ing 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 persons there. Then William Wyndesor, in his 

 own name, and that of all the canons, made solemn pro- 

 clamation, enjoining all who had no right to vote to depart 

 out of the chapter-house. When all were withdrawn ex- 

 cept Guyllery de Lacuna, in decretis 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 coun- 

 cil "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 proceed in this election, they resolved 

 on that of scrutiny. Three of the canons, Wyndesor, Berne, 

 and London, were made scnitators : Berne, London, and 

 Stratfeld, chusing Wyndesor', Wyndesor, London, and Strat- 

 feld, chusing Berne ; Wyndesor, Berne, and Stratfeld, chusing 

 London. 



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

 then that of Stratfeld ; "et ad inferiorem partem angu- 

 larem" of the chapter-house, "juxta ostium ejusdem de- 

 clinentes," with the other persons (except Stratfeld, who 

 staid behind), proceeded to voting, two swearing, and 

 taking the voice of the third, in succession, privately. 



