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ANTIQUITIES. 
LETTER XIIT. 
T^HE reader is here prefented with five forms refpecling the 
chufing of a prior ; but as they are of fome length they muft be 
referved for the Appendix; their titles are N°. 108. Charta 
" petens licentiam elegendi prelatum a Domino epifcopo PFintoni- 
enfi: — " Forma licentie concede:" — " Forma decreti poft 
*^ eleftionem conficiendi:" — 108. " Modus procedendi ad elec- 
tionem per formam fcrutinii :" — et " Forma ricte prefentandi 
" ele6tum." Such evidences are rare and curious, and throw 
great light upon the general monafiko-ecclefwfncal hiftory of this 
kingdom, not yet fufficiently imderftood. 
In the year 1324 there was an eleftion for a prior at Selborne ; 
when fome difficulties occurring, and a devolution taking place, 
application was made to Stratford, who was bifhop of Winchejier at 
that time, and of courfe the vifitor and patron of the convent at 
the fpot above-mentioned y. 
An ExtraH from Reg. Stratford. W'lnton. 
P. 4. " Commiffio fafta fub-priori de Sekbourne" by the bifliop 
enjoining him to preferve the difcipline of the order in the con- 
vent during the vacancy made by the late death of the prior, 
/ Strafford '^-^^^ bifhop of FiW;^/?^^ from J323 to j 333, when he was tranflated to 
CaHt'jrhurj. 
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