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ANTIQUITIES 
and William Stratfeld, canons^ wlio alone had voices, being 
tlie only canons, about ten o' the clock, first sung Veni 
Creator/^ the letters and license being read in the presence 
of many persons there. Then William Wyndesor, in his 
own name, and that of all the canons, made solemn procla- 
mation, enjoining all who had no right ta vote to depart 
out of the chapter-house. When all were withdrawn ex- 
cept Guyllery de Lacuna, in decretis Baccalarius, and Robert 
Peverell, notary-public, and also the two chaplains, the first 
was requested to stay, that he might direct and inform us 
in the mode of election ; the other, that he might record 
and attest the transactions; and the two last that they 
might be witnesses to them. 
Then, having read the constitution of the general council, 
" Quia propter/' and the forms of elections contained in it 
being sufficiently explained to them by De Lacuna, as well 
in Latin as the vulgar tongue, and having deliberated in 
what mode to proceed in this election, they resolved on that 
of scrutiny. Three of the canons, Wyndesor, Berne, and 
London, were made scrutators : Berne, London, and Strat- 
feld, choosing Wyndesor ; Wyndesor, London, and Stratfeld, 
choosing Berne ; Wyndesor, Berne, and Stratfeld, choosing 
London. 
They were empowered to take each other's vote, and then 
that of Stratfeld : ^' et ad inferiorem partem angularem " 
of the chapter-house, ^^juxta ostium ejusdem declinentes/' 
with the other persons (except Stratfeld, who stayed behind) , 
proceeded to voting, two swearing, and taking the voice of 
the third, in succession, privately. Wyndesor voted first : 
" Ego credo Petrum Berne meliorem et utiliorem ad regimen 
istius ecclesie, et in ipsum consentio, ac eum nomino,'" &c. 
Berne was next sworn, and in like manner nominated 
Wyndesor ; London nominated Berne : Stratfeld was then 
called and sworn, and nominated Berne. 
Quibus in scriptis redactis," by the notary-public, they 
returned to the upper part of the chapter-house, where by 
Wyndesor sic peracta fecerunt in communi," and then 
solemnly, in form written, declared the election of Berne : 
when all, " antedicto nostro electo excepto, approbantes et 
ratificantes, cepimus decantare solemniter ' Te Deum Laii- 
