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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
dissensions and want of order that prevailed in the convent 
resigned his priorship into the hands of the bishop. — Eeg. Wayn- 
flete, torn i. pars i"^^, fol. 157. 
March 28, A.D. 1468. "In quadam alta camera juxta mag- 
nam portam mrnerii of the Bishop of Wynton de Waltham 
coram eodem rev. patre ibidem tunc sedente, Peter Berne, prior 
of Selborne, ipsum prioratimi in sacras, et venerabiles manus of 
the bishop, viva voce libere resignavit : and his resignation was 
admitted before two witnesses and a notary-public. In conse- 
quence, March 29th, before the bishop, in capella manerii sui 
ante dicti pro tribunal! sedente, comparuerunt fratres " Peter 
Berne, Thomas London, William Wyndesor, and William Pay- 
nell, alias Stretford, canons regular of the Priory, capituiem, et 
conventum ejusdem ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in elec- 
tione 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, de- 
liberated a while, and then, by way of compromise, as they 
affirmed, unanimously transferred their right of election to the 
bishop before witnesses. In consequence of this the bishop, 
after full deliberation, proceeded, April 7th, " in capella manerii 
sui de Waltham," to the election of a prior; " et fratrem Johan- 
nem Morton, priorem ecclesie conventualis de Eeygate dicti 
ordinis S*^ 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, and before the same witnesses, John 
Morton resigned to the bishop the priorship of Eeygate viva voce. 
The bishop then required his consent to his own election ; " qui 
licet in parte renitens tanti reverend! patris se confirmans," 
obeyed, and signified his consent oraculo vive vocis. Then was 
there a mandate citing any one who would gainsay the said 
election to appear before 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 pub- 
lished it as required, dated ISTewton Valence, May 1st, 1468. 
