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mon for all, and to publUh the eledlion, as cuftomary ; and 
returned long before it was dark to the chapter-houfe, where Thomas 
Halykorm read publicly the instrument of eleftion ; when all the 
biothers, the new j-!)ior excepted, linging foleninly the hymn 
*' Te Deam laud I iiMs," /dT^r/iJ/z^ deportari novum eleBum, by fome 
of th.^ brothers, from the chapter-houfe to the high altar of the 
church"; and the hymn being fung, dldifque verjicidoet orations 
confueth in lac parte, 1 homas Halyborne, mox tunc ibidem, before 
the clergy and people of both fexes folemnly publifhed the election 
in vulgari. Then Richard Eljlede, and the whole convent by their 
prodors and nuncios appointed for the purpofes, Thomas Halyborne 
and John Stepe, required feveral times the affent of the eleded ; 
et tandem poft diutinas interpellationes, et deliberationem 
providam penes fe habitam, in hac parte divine nolens, ut 
afferuit, refiftere voluntati," wkhin the limited time he fignified 
his acceptance in the ufual written form of words. The bifliop 
is then fupplicated to confirm their eledlion, and do the needful, 
under common feal, in the chapter-houfe. November 14, 14.10. 
The bifhop, 7^«//^;^' 6, 1410, apiuiKihev in camera inferlorl, de- 
clared the election duly made, and ordered the new prior to be 
induced — for this the archdeacon of PFincheJier was written to ; 
ftallumque in choro, et locum in capituio juxta morem preteriti 
*' temporis," to be alTigned him ; and every thing befide neceffary 
to be done. 
o It feems here as if the canons ufed to chair their new elefted prior from the chapter- 
houfe to the high altar of their convent church. In letter XXI, on the fame occafion, it 
is faid-— " et fic canentes dlftum eleftum ad majus altare ecclefie deduximus, ut apudnos 
" raoris eft." 
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