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OF SELBORNE. 
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This certificate being read, the four canons of Selborne appeared 
9.nd required the election to be confirmed ; et ex super ahundcmti 
appointed William Long their proctor to solicit in tlieir name 
that he might be canonically confirmed. John Morton also 
appeared, and proclamation was made ; and no one appearing 
against him, the commissary pronounced all absentees contuma- 
cious, and precluded them from objecting at any other time ; 
and, at the instance of John Morton and the proctor, confirmed 
the election by his decree, and directed his mandate to the 
rector of Hedley and the vicar of Newton Valence to install 
him in the usual form. 
Thus, for the first time, was a person, a stranger to the con- 
vent of Selborne, and never canon of that monastery, elected 
prior ; though the style of the petitions in former elections used 
to run thus, — " Vos . . . rogamus quatinus eligendum ex nobis 
unum confratrem de gremio nostra, — licentiam vestram — nobis 
concedere dignemini." 
LETTER XX. 
Prior Morton dying in 1471, two canons, by themselves pro- 
ceeded to election, and chose a prior ; but two more (one of 
them Berne) complaining of not being summoned, objected to 
the proceedings as informal ; till at last the matter was com- 
promised that the bishop should again, for that turn, nominate 
as he had before. But the circumstances of this election will be 
best explained by the following extract : 
PtEG. AVA.YNFLETE, tom. ii. pars I"'"", fol. 7. 
William Wyndesor, a canon-regular of the Priory of Selborne, 
having been elected prior on the death of Brother John, appeared 
in person before the bishop in his chapel at South Waltham. 
He was attended on this occasion by Thomas London and John 
Bromesgrove, canons, who elected him. Peter Berne and 
