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rev. patre ibidem tune sedente," Peter Berne, prior of Sel- 

 borne, te ipsum prioratum in sacras et venerabiles manus," 

 of the bishop, " viva voce libere resignavit:" and his resig- 

 nation was admitted before two witnesses and a notary 

 public. In consequence, March 29th, before the bishop, 

 in " capella manerii sui ante dicti pro tribunali sedente, 

 comparuerunt fratres" Peter Berne, Thomas London, Wil- 

 liam Wyndesor, and William Paynell, alias Stretford, canons 

 regular of the Priory, " capitulum, et conventum ejusdem 

 ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione futura prioris 

 dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asseruerunt, habentes/' 

 and after the bishop had notified to them the vacancy of a 

 prior, with his free license to elect, deliberated awhile, and 

 then, by way of compromise, as they affirmed, unanimously 

 transferred their right of election to the bishop before wit- 

 nesses. In consequence of this the bishop, after full de- 

 liberation, proceeded, April 7th, " in capella manerii sui de 

 Waltham," to the election of a prior; " et fratrem Johannem 

 Morton, priorem ecclesie conventualis de Reygate dicti 

 ordinis S* 1 . Augustini Wynton. dioc. in priorem vice et 

 nomine omnium et singulorum canonicorum predictorum 

 elegit, in ordine sacerdotali, et etate licita constitutum, &c." 

 And on the same day, in the same place, before the same 

 witnesses, John Morton resigned to the bishop the priorship 

 of Reygate viva voce. The bishop then required his consent 

 to his own election ; " qui licet in parte renitens tanti reve- 

 rendi patris se confirmans," obeyed, and signified his con- 

 sent oraculo vive vocis. Then was there a mandate citing 

 any one who would gainsay the said election to appear be- 

 fore the bishop or his commissary in his chapel at Farnham 

 on the 2nd day of May next. The dean of the deanery of 

 Aulton then appeared before the chancellor, his commissary, 

 and returned the citation or mandate dated April 22nd, 1468, 

 with signification, in writing, of his having published it as 

 required, dated Newton Valence, May 1st, 1468. This cer- 

 tificate being read, the four canons of Selborne appeared 

 and required the election to be confirmed ; et ex super abun- 

 danti appointed William Long their proctor to solicit in their 

 name that he might be canonically confirmed. John Morton 



