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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
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 per- 
sons there. Then William Wyndesor, in his own name, and 
that of all the canons, made solemn proclamation, enjoining all 
who had no right to vote to depart out of the chapter-house. 
When all were withdraAvn except Guyllery de Lacuna, in de- 
cretis Baccalarius, and Eobert 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 
sufiiciently 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, AVyndesor, Berne, and London, were made 
scrutators : Berne, London, and Stratfeld, 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 ; " et ad inferioreni partem angularem " of the 
chapter-house, ''juxta ostium ejusdem declinentes," with the 
other persons (except Stratfeld, who stayed behind), pro- 
ceeded 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 ec- 
clesie, et in ipsum consentio, ac eum nomino," &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 purecta fecerunt in communi," and then 
solemnly, in form written, declared the election of Berne : when 
all, "antedicto nostro electo excepto, approbantes et ratifi- 
cantes, cepimus decantare solemniter *' Te Deiimi Lcmclarnus' et sic 
