OF SELBOBNE, 
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of Newton and Selborne ; and with. Sampson Maycock, a 
public notary; where they treated of the election; when 
they unanimously agreed on John Wynch.estre_, and ap- 
pointed Thomas Halyborne, to choose him in common for 
all^ and to publish the election^ as customary ; and returned 
long before it was dark to the chapter-house, where Thomas 
Halyborne read publicly the instrument of election ; when 
all the brothers, the new prior excepted, singing solemnly 
the hymn Te Deam laudamus,'' fecerunt deportari novum 
eledum, by some of the brothers, from the chapter-house to 
the high altar of the church ; ^ and the hymn being sung, 
dictisque vtt'siculo et oratione consuetis in hac parte, Thomas 
Halyborne, mox tunc ibidem, before the clergy and people 
of both sexes solemnly published the election in vulgari. 
Then Richard Elstede, and the whole convent by their proc- 
tors and nuncios appointed for the purpose, Thomas Haly- 
borne and John Stepe, required several times the assent of 
the elected ; et tandem post diutinas interpellationes, et 
deliberationem providam penes se habitam, in hac parte 
divine nolens, ut asseruit, resistere voluntati,^' within the 
limited time he signified his acceptance in the usual written 
form of words. The bishop is then supplicated to confirm 
their election, and do the needful, under common seal, in 
the chapter-house. I^ovember 14, 1410. 
The bishop, January 6, 1410, ajpud Esher in camera 
Inferiori, declared the election duly made, and ordered 
the new prior to be inducted — for this the Archdeacon 
of Winchester was written to : ^' stallumque in chore, 
et locum in capitulo juxta morem preteriti temporis,^^ 
to be assigned him ; and every thing beside necessary to 
be done. 
Beaufort's register, vol. i. 
P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia 
^ It seems here as if the canons used to chair their new elected prior 
from the chapter-house to the high altar of then* convent church. In 
Letter XXI. on the same occasion, it is said — " et sic canentes dictum 
electum ad majus altare ecclesie deduximus, ut apud nos moris est." — 
G. W. 
