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being folemnlyfung, cum " verf culo et oratione," as r.fual^ andhh 
letter of licenfe, with the appointment of the hour and place of 
election being read, alia voce, in vaivis of the chapter-lioufe ; — 
John IVyncheJlre, fenior, the fub-prior, in his own behalf and that 
of all the canons, and by their mandate, " quafdam raonicionem 
" et protcflacionem in fcriptis redaftas fecit, legit, et interpofuit"— 
that all pcrfons difqualiiied, or not having right to be prefect, 
Ihould immediately withdraw; and protefting againfl their voting, 
&c. — that then having read the confhitution of the general council 
" Quia propter," and explained the modes of proceeding to elec- 
tion, they agreed unanimoufly to proceed " per viam feu formam 
^'jlmplids cowpro/uiffi when John Wynchcflre, fub-prior, and all the 
others (the commiffaries undernamed excepted) named and chofe 
brothers Richard Eljlcde, l^honuu Halyborne^ John Lemyngton the 
facrift, John Slepe, chantor, and Richard Putzvorth, canons, to be 
commiffaries, who were fworn each to nominate and elecl a fit 
perfon to be prior : and empowered by letters patent under the 
common fcal, to be in force only until the darknefs of the night of 
the fame day; — that they, or the greater part of them, fliould 
eled for the whole convent, within the limited time, from their 
own number, or from the reff of the convent ; — that one of them 
fliould publifli their confent in common before the clergy and 
people : — they then all promifed to receive as prior the perfon 
thefe five canons fhould fix on. Thefe commiffaries feceded from 
the chapter-houfe to the refeftory of the Priory, and were fliut in 
with mafter John Penkefter, bachelor of laws ; and John Couke and 
John Lynne, perpetual vicars of the parifli churches of Nezvton and 
Selborne ; and with Sampfon Alaycock, a public notary ; where they 
treated of the eledllon ; when they unanimoufly agreed on John 
JVynchcJlre, and appointed Ibomas Halyborne to chufe him in com- 
