OF 8ELB0RNE. 
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proclamation had been made in the church of the convent 
where the election was held, that any who opposed the said 
election or elected should appear. Some difficulties were 
started, which the bishop overruled, and confirmed the 
election, and admitted the new prior sub hac forma : 
''In Dei nomine Amen. Ego Johannes permissione 
divina, &c. te Walterum de Insula ecclesie de Selebourne 
nostre dioceseos nostrique patronatus vacantis, canonicum 
et cantorem, virum utique providum, et discretum, literarum 
scientia preditum, vita moribus et conversatione merito 
commendatum, in ordine sacerdotali et etate legitima con- 
stitutum, de legitime matrimonio procreatum, in ordine et 
religione Sancti Augustini de Selebourne expresse pro- 
fessum, in spiritualibus et temporalibus circumspectum, 
jure nobis hac vice devoluto in hac parte, in dicte ecclesie 
de Selebourne prefectum priorem ', curam et administra- 
tionem ejusdem tibi in spiritualibus et temporalibus com- 
mittentes. Dat. apud Selebourne XIII kalend. Augusti 
anno supradicto.^^ 
There follows an order to the sub-prior and convent pro 
obedientia : 
A mandate to Nicholas above-named to release the Priory 
to the new prior : 
A mandate for the induction of the new prior. 
LETTER XIV. 
N the year 1373 Wykeham, Bishop of Win- 
chester, held a visitation of his whole diocese; 
not only of the secular clergy through the 
several deaneries, but also of the monasteries, 
and religious houses of all sorts, which he 
visited in person. The next year he sent his commissioners 
with power to correct and reform the several irregularities 
and abuses which he had discovered in the court^e of his 
visitation. 
