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ANTIQUITIES 
taking place^ application was made to Stratford, who was 
Bisliop of Winchester at that time, and of course the visitor 
and patron of the convent at the spot above-mentioned/ 
AN EXTRACT FROM REG. STRATFORD. WINTON. 
P. 4. Commissio facta sub-priori de Selebourne " by 
the bishop, enjoining him to preserve the discipline of the 
order in the convent during the vacancy made by the late 
death of the prior, ("nuper pastoris solatio destituta,^') 
dated 4*'*. kal. Maii. ann. 2^° sc. of his consecration, [sc. 
1324.] 
P. 6. Custodia Prioratus de Seleburne vaca,ntis,^^ com- 
mitted by the bishop to Nicholas de la . . ., a layman, it 
belonging to the bishop " ratione vacationis ejusdem,^^ in 
July, 1324. Ibid. Negotium electionis de Selebourne. 
Acta coram Johanne Episcopo, &c. 1324 innegotio electionis 
de fratre Waltero de Insula concanonico prioratus de Sele- 
bourne," lately elected by the sub-prior and convent, by 
way of scrutiny ; that it appeared to the bishop, by certi- 
ficate from the Dean of Alton, that solemn citation and 
canonicos de voluntate tociiis conventus ad inquirenda vota singulorum 
constitutes, secreto et singillatim requisiti ; tandem publicato scrutinio 
et facta votorum colectione inventum est, majorem et saniorem partem 
tocius capituli dicte ecclesie in fratrem S. de B. dicte ecclesie canonicum 
nnanimiter et concorditer concencisse ; vel sic, quaiido inventum oranes 
canonicos dicte ecclesie preter duos in fratrem, A. D. quibus statim 
majori parti eligendum adquiescenter : frater k. supprior ecclesie me- 
morate, juxta potestatem sibi a toto conventu traditam, vice consociorum 
suorum et sua ac tocius conventus, dictum fratrem S. de B. in priorem 
ejusdem ecclesie elegit, sub hac forma; 'Ego frater supprior conven- 
tualis ecclesie beate Marie talis loci, potestate et auctoritate mihi a toto 
conventu dicte ecclesie tradita et commissa, quando, puplicato scrutinio 
et omnibus circa hoc rite peractis, inveni majorem et partem saniorem 
tocius capituli nostri in fratrem S. de B. virum providum unanimiter 
concencisse, ipsum nobis et ecclesie nostre, vice tocius conventus, in 
priorem eligendum ; et eidem electioni subscribo ; cui electioni omnes 
canonici nostri concencerunt, et subscripserunt.' — ' Ego frater de C. 
presenti electioni concencio, et subscribo.' Et sic de singulis electo- 
ribus ; in cujus rei testimonium sigillum capituli nostri apponi fecimus 
ad presentes." — G. W. 
^ Stratford was Bisliop of Winchester from 1323 to 1333, when he 
was translated to Canterbury. — G. W. 
