OF SELBORNE. 
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LETTER XVI. 
Beaufort was biiliop of IVinchefier from 1405 to 1447; ^'""^ 
yet, notwithfbanding this long epifcopate, only torn. I. of BeavforL\ 
Regifter is to be found. This lofs is much to be regretted, as it 
muft unavoidably make a gap in the hiftory of Selborne Priory, 
and perhaps in the lift of it's priors. 
In 1410 there was an eledtion for a prior, and again in 141 1. 
In vol. I. p. 24, of Beaaforfs Regifter, is the inftrument of the 
eledion of John Wynchejire to be prior— the fubftance as follows : 
Richard Elftcde, fenior canon, fignifies to the bifliop that brother 
1'homas Wefion, the late prior, died Ocloher i8th, 1410, and was 
buried November iith. — That the biftiop's licenfe to eled having 
been obtained he and the whole convent met in the chapter-houfc, 
on the fame day, about the hour of vefpers, to confider of the elec- 
tion : — that brother John Wynchejire^ then fub-prior, with the 
general confent, appointed the 12th of Novemlcr, ad hora-m ejufdem 
dies capitularem, for the bufinefs : — when they met in the chapter- 
houfe, poji mijjhrn de fanSio Spiritu, folemnly celebrated in the 
church ; — to wit, Richard Elftede ; 'Thomas Halyborne ; John Lcmyng- 
ion, facrifta ; John Stepe, cantor ; Walter FJarnham ; Richard Put- 
'worthy celerarius ; H/^gh London, Henry Brampion, alias Brompton ; 
John Wynchejire, fenior; John Wynchejire, ]\m-{\o\- ; — then " Propofico 
" primitus verbo Dei," and then ympno Veni Creator Spiritus" 
being 
