OF SELBORNE 285 



These commissaries seceded from the chapter-house to the re- 

 fectory of the Priory, and were shut in with master John Penkester, 

 bachelor of laws ; and John Couke and John Lt/nne, perpetual vicars 

 of the parish churches of Newton and Selbome ; and with Sampson 

 Maycock, a public notary ; where they treated of the election ; 

 when they unanimously agreed on John Wynchestre, and appointed 

 Thomas Halybome, to chuse 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 Halybome read publicly the 

 instrument of election ; when all the brothers, the new prior ex- 

 cepted, singing solemnly the hymn "Te Deum lAudaams," focerunt 

 deportari novum electum, by some of the brothers, from the chapter- 

 house to the high altar of the church ; i and the hymn being sung, 

 dictisque versiculo et oratione consuetis in hoc parte, Thomas Haly- 

 bome, mox tunc ibidem, before the clergy and people of both sexes 

 solemnly published the election in vulgari. Then Richard Elstede, 

 and the whole convent by their proctors and nuncios appointed for 

 the purposes, Thomas Halybome and John Stepe required several 

 times the assent of the elected ; " et tandem post diutinas inter- 

 " pellationes, et deliberationem 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 inferiori, 

 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 

 " preterit! temporis," to be assigned him ; and every thing beside 

 necessary to be done. 



Beaufort's Register, Vol. I. 



P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia de Sele- 

 boum, cum Capella, — xxx marc, decima x lib. iii sol. Vicaria de 

 Seleboum non taxatur propter exilitatem. 



P. 9- Taxatio bonorum temporalium religiosorum in Archidiac. 



Wynton. 



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 deduxi- 

 " mus, ut apud nos moris est ". 



