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ANTiaUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
his body to decent sepulture, and having requested, according to 
custom, leave to elect another, and having obtained it under your 
seal, we, William Wyndesor, president of the convent, on the 
29th of August, in our chapter-house assembled, and making a 
chapter, taking to us in this business Richard ap Jenkyn, and 
Galfrid Bryan, chaplains, that our said Priory might not by 
means of this vacancy incur harm or loss, unanimously agreed 
on August the last for the day of election; on which day, having 
first celebrated mass, " De sancto spiritu," at the high altar, and 
having called a chapter by tolling a bell about ten o' the clock, 
we, William Wyndesor, president, Peter Berne, Thomas London, 
and William Stratfeld, canons, who alone had voices, being the 
only canons, about ten o' the clock, first sung " Veni Creator,^' 
the letters and license being read in the presence of many per- 
sons there. Then William Wyndesor, in his own name, and 
that of all the canons, made solemn proclamation, enjoining all 
who had no right to vote to depart out of the chapter-house. 
When all were withdrawn except Guyllery de Lacuna, in de- 
cretis 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 
sufl&ciently explained to them by De Lacuna, as well in Latin as 
the vulgar tongue, and having deliberated in what mode to pro- 
ceed in this election, they resolved on that of scrutiny. Three 
of the canons, Wyndesor, Berne, and London, were made scru- 
tators : Berne, London, and Stratfeld, 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 staid 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 
