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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 procla- 

 mation, 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 When all were withdrawn ex- 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 council, 

 " 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 scrutators : Berne, London, and Strat- 

 fold, choosing Wyndesor ; Wyndesor, London, and Stratfeld, 

 choosing Berne ; Wyndesor, Berne, and Stratfeld, choosing 

 London. 



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

 that of Stratfeld: (t et ad inferiorom partem angularem" 

 of the chapter-house, "juxta ostium ejusdem declinentes," 

 with the other persons (except Stratfeld, who stayed behind) , 

 proceeded to voting, two swearing, and taking the voice of 

 the third, in succession, privately. Wyndesor voted first : 

 " Ego credo Petrum Berne meliorem et utiliorem ad regimen 

 istius ecclesie, et in ipsum consentio, ac eum riomino," &c. 

 Berne was next sworn, and in like manner nominated 

 Wyndesor ; London nominated Berne : Stratfeld was then 

 called and sworn, and nominated Berne. 



" Quibus in scriptis redactis," by the notary-public, they 

 returned to the upper part of the chapter- house, where by 

 Wyndesor " sic peracta fecerunt in communi," and then 

 solemnly, in form written, declared the election of Berne : 

 when all, " antedicto nostro electo excepto, approbantes et 

 ratificantes, cepimus decantare solemniter ' Te Deum Lau- 



