OF SELBOBNE, 
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also appeared, and proclamation was made ; and no one ap- 
pearing against him, the commissary pronounced all ab- 
sentees contumacious, and precluded them from objecting 
at any other time ; and, at the instance of John Morton 
and the proctor, confirmed the election by his decree, and 
directed his mandate to the rector of Hedley and the vicar 
of Newton Valence to install him in the usual form. 
Thus, for the first time, was a person, a stranger to the 
convent of Selborne, and never canon of that monastery, 
elected prior: though the style of the petitions in former 
elections used to run thus, — Yos .... rogamus quatinus 
eligendum ex nobis unum confratrem de gremio nostroj — 
licentiam vestram — nobis concedere dignemini.^^ 
LETTER XX. 
RIOR MORTOI^" dying in 1471, two canons, 
by themselves, proceeded to election, and 
chose a prior; but two more (one of them 
Berne) complaining of not being summoned, 
objected to the proceedings as informal ; till 
at last the matter was compromised that the bishop should 
again, for that turn, nominate as he had before. But the 
circumstances of this election will be best explained by the 
following extract : 
Reg. Waynflete, torn. ii. pars 1™% fol. 7. 
Memorandum, a.d. 1471. August 22. 
William Wyndesor, a canon-regular of the Priory of 
Selborne, having been elected prior on the death of brother 
John, appeared in person before the bishop in his chapel 
at South Waltham. He was attended on this occasion by 
Thomas London and John Bromesgrove, canons, who had 
elected him. Peter Berne and William Stratfeld, canons, 
also presented themselves at the same time, complaining 
that in this business they had been overlooked, and not 
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