OF SELBOENE. 457 



proclamation had been made in the church of the convent 

 where the election was held, that any who opposed the said 

 election or elected should appear. Some difficulties were 

 started, which the bishop overruled, and confirmed the 

 election, and admitted the new prior sub hac forma : 



" In Dei nomine Amen. Ego Johannes permissione 

 divina, &c. te Walterum de Insula ecclesie de Selebourne 

 nostre dioceseos nostrique patronatus vacantis, canonicum 

 et cantorem, virum utique providum, et discretum, literarum 

 scientia preditum, vita moribus et conversatione merito 

 commendatum, in ordine sacerdotali et etate legitima con- 

 stitutum, de legitimo matrimonio procreatum, in ordine et 

 religione Sancti Augustini de Selebourne expresse pro- 

 fessum, in spiritualibus et temporalibus circumspectum, 

 jure nobis hac vice devoluto in hac parte, in dicte ecclesie 

 de Selebourne prefectum priorem ; curam et administra- 

 tion em ejusdem tibi in spiritualibus et temporalibus com- 

 mittentes. Dat. apud Selebourne XIII kalend. Augusti 

 anno supradicto." 



There follows an order to the sub-prior and convent pro 

 obedientia : 



A mandate to Nicholas above-named to release the Priory 

 to the new prior : 



A mandate for the induction of the new prior. 



LETTER XIY. 



N the year 1373 Wykeham, Bishop of Win- 

 chester, held a visitation of his whole diocese; 

 not only of the secular clergy through the 

 several deaneries, but also of the monasteries, 

 and religious houses of all sorts, which he 

 visited in person. The next year he sent his commissioners 

 with power to correct and reform the several irregularities 

 and abuses which he had discovered in the course of his 

 visitation. 



