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ANTIQUITIES 
rev. patre ibidem tunc sedente/' Peter Berne, prior of Sel- 
borne, ipsum prioratum in sacras et venerabiles manus/' 
of tbe bishop, viva voce libere resignavit and his resig- 
nation was admitted before two witnesses and a notary 
public. In consequence, March 29th, before the bishop, 
in capella manerii sui ante dicti pro tribunali sedente, 
comparuerunt fratres " Peter Berne, Thomas London, Wil- 
liam Wyndesor, and William Paynell, alias Stretford, canons 
i-egular of the Priory, " capitulum, et conventum ejusdem 
occlesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione futura prioris 
dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asseruerunt, habentes;^* 
and after the bishop had notified to them the vacancy of a 
prior, with his free license to elect, deliberated awhile, and 
then, by way of compromise, as they affirmed, unanimously 
transferred their right of election to the bishop before wit- 
nesses. In consequence of this the bishop, after full de- 
liberation, proceeded, April 7th, " in capella manerii sui de 
Waltham,^"* to the election of a prior ; et fratrem Johannem 
Morton, priorem ecclesie convent ualis de Reygate dicti 
ordinis Augustini Wynton. dioc. in priorem vice et 
nomine omnium et singulorum canonicorum predictorum 
elegit, in ordine sacerdotali, et etate licita constitutum, &c.^' 
And on the same day, in the same place, before the same 
witnesses, John Morton resigned to the bishop the priorship 
of Reygate viva voce. The bishop then required his consent 
to his own election ; qui licet in parte renitens tanti reve- 
rendi patris se confirmans/^ obeyed, and signified his con- 
sent oraculo vive vocis. Then was there a mandate citing- 
any one who would gainsay the said election to appear be- 
fore the bishop or his commissary in his chapel at Farnham 
on the 2nd day of May next. The dean of the deanery of 
Aulton then appeared before the chancellor, his commissary, 
and returned the citation or mandate dated April 22nd, 1468, 
with signification, in writing, of his having published it as 
required, dated Newton Valence, May 1st, 1468. This cer- 
tificate being read, the four canons of Selborne appeared 
and required the election to be confirmed ; et ex super abun- 
danti appointed William Long their proctor to solicit in their 
name that he might be canonically confirmed. John Morton 
