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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
nobis unum confratrem de gremio nostro, — licentiam vestram — 
nobis concedere dignemini/^ ^ 
LETTER XX. 
Prior Morton dying in 1471, two canons, by themselves, pro- 
ceeded to election, and chose a prior ; but two more (one of them 
Berne) complaining of not being summoned, objected to the pro- 
ceedings 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 ex- 
plained by the following extract : — 
Reg. Waynflete, torn. II. pars i™% 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 
WiUiam Stratfeld, canons, also presented themselves at the same 
time, complaining that in this business they had been overlooked, 
and not summoned ; and that therefore the validity of the elec- 
tion might with reason be called in question, and quarrels and 
dissensions might probably arise between the newly chosen prior 
and the parties thus neglected. 
After some altercation and dispute they all came to an agree- 
ment with the new prior, that what had been done should be 
rejected and annulled ; and that they would again, for this turn, 
transfer to the bishop their power to elect, order, and provide 
them another prior, whom they promised unanimously to admit. 
The bishop accepted of this offer before witnesses; and on 
September 27, in an inner chamber near the chapel above-men- 
tioned, aftec full deliberation, chose brother Thomas Fairwise, 
vicar of Somborne, a canon-regular of Saint Augustine in the 
Priory of Bruscough, in the diocese of Coventry and Litchfield, 
to be prior of Selborne. The form is nearly as above in the last 
election. The canons are again enumerated; W. Wyndesor, sub- 
prior, P. Berne, T. London, W. Stratfeld, J. Bromesgrove, who 
