OF SELBOENE. 471 



of Newton and Selborne ; and with Sampson Maycock, a 

 public notary ; where they treated of the election ; when 

 they unanimously agreed on John Wynchestre, and ap- 

 pointed Thomas Halyborne, to choose him in common for 

 all, and to publish the election, as customary ; and returned 

 long before it was dark to the chapter-house, where Thomas 

 Halyborne read publicly the instrument of election ; when 

 all the brothers, the new prior excepted, singing solemnly 

 the hymn " Te Deum laudamus," fecerunt deportari novum 

 electum y by some of the brothers, from the chapter-house to 

 the high altar of the church ; 1 and the hymn being sung, 

 didisque v&'siculo et oratione consuetis in hac parte, Thomas 

 Halyborne, moss tune ibidenij before the clergy and people 

 of both sexes solemnly published the election in vulgari. 

 Then Richard Elstede, and the whole convent by their proc- 

 tors and nuncios appointed for the purpose, Thomas Haly- 

 borne and John Stepe, required several times the assent of 

 the elected ; " et tandem post diutinas interpellations, et 

 deliberationein 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 supplicated 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 

 inferiorij declared the election duly made, and ordered 

 the new prior to be inducted for this the Archdeacon 

 of Winchester was written to : " stallumque in choro, 

 et locum in capitulo juxta morem preteriti temporis," 

 to be assigned him ; and every thing beside necessary to 

 bo done. 



BEAUFORT'S REGISTER, VOL. i. 

 P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia 



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. 



