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ANTIQUITIES 
consent, appointed the 12tli of November, ad horam ejusdem 
diei capitular em, for the business : — when they met in the 
chapter-house, 'post missam de sancto 8piritu, solemnly 
celebrated in the church ; — to wit, Richard Elstede ; Thomas 
Halyborne ; J ohn Lemyngton, sacrista ; John Stepe^ cantor ; 
Walter Ffarnham ; Richard Putworth, celerarius ; Hugh 
London; Henry Brampton, alias Brompton; John Wyn- 
chestre, senior ; John Wynchestre, junior ; — then " pro- 
posito primitus verbo Dei,^'' and then ympno Yeni Creator 
Spiritus'^ being solemnly sung, cum " versiculo et oratione,^' 
as usual, and his letter of license, with the appointment of 
the hour and place of election, being read, alta voce, in valvis 
of the chapter-house ; — John Wynchestre, senior, the sub- 
prior, in his own behalf and that of all the canons, and by 
their mandate, quasdam monicionem et protestacionem in 
scriptis redactas fecit, legit, et interposuit'^ — that all persons 
disqualified, or not having right to be present, should im- 
mediately withdraw; and protesting against their voting, 
&c. — that then having read the constitution of the general 
council Quia propter,'' and explained the modes of pro- 
ceeding to election, they agreed unanimously to proceed 
per viam seu formam simplicis compromissi when John 
Wynchestre, sub-prior, and all the others (the commissaries 
under-named excepted) named and chose brothers Richard 
Elstede, Thomas Halyborne, John Lemyngton the sacrist, 
John Stepe, chanter, and Richard Putworth, canons, to be 
commissaries, who were sworn each to nominate and elect 
a fit person to be prior; and empowered by letters patent 
under the common seal, to be in force only until the dark- 
ness of the night of the same day; — that they, or the greater 
part of them, should elect for the whole convent, within the 
limited time, from their own number, or from the rest of 
the convent; — that one of them should publish their con- 
sent in common before the clergy and people : — they then 
all promised to receive as prior the person these five canons 
should fix on. The commissaries seceded from the chapter- 
house to the refectory of the Priory, and were shut in with 
master John Penkester, bachelor of laws ; and John Couke 
and John Lynne, perpetual vicars of the parish churches 
