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sancto Spiritu, solemnly celebrated in the church ;— to wit, Eichard 
Elstede, Thomas Halyborne, John Lemyngton, sacrista ; John Stepe, 
cantor ; Walter Ffarnham, Eichard Putworth, celerarius ; Hugh London, 
Henry Brampton, alias Brompton ; John Wynchestre, senior, John 
Wynchestre, junior ; then " Proposito primitis 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, inter- 
posuit " — that all persons disqualified, or not having right to be present, 
should immediately withdraw, and protesting against their voting, &c. ; 
that then having read the constitution of the general council " Quia 
propter," and explained the modes of prpceeding to election, they 
agreed unanimously to proceed ^'^per viam seu formam simplicis 
compromissi ; " when John Wynchestre, sub-prior, and all the others 
(the commissaries undernamed excepted) named and chose brothers 
Eichard Elstede, Thomas Halyborne, John Lemyngton, the sacrist, 
John Stepe, chantor, and Eichard 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 darkness 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 consent in common 
before the clergy and people : they then all promised to receive as 
prior the person these five canons should fix on. These 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 of jN'ewton 
and >Selborne, and with Sampson Maycock, a public notary, where 
they treated of the election ; when they unanimously agreed on 
John Wynchestre, and appointed 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 Deum IsLudBmns," fecerunt deportari novum electum, by some of 
the brothers from the chapter- house to the high altar of the church ; * 
and the hymn being sung, dictisque versiculo et oratione consuetis in 
hac parte, Thomas Halyborne, mox tunc ihidera, before the clergy and 
people of both sexes solemnly published the election in vulgari. Then 
Eichard Elstede, and the whole convent by their proctors and nuncios 
appointed for the purposes, Thomas Halyborne and John Stepe, 
required several times the assent of the elected ; " et tandem post 
* It seems here as if the canons used to chair their new elected prior from the 
chapter-house to the high altar of their 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." 
