OF S EL BORNE. 389 
Thus, for the firfl; time, was a perfon, a ftranger to the convent 
of Selborne, and never canon of that monaftery, elefted prior ; 
though the ftyle of the petitions in former eledtions ufed to run 
thus, — " Vos - - - - rogamus quatinus eligendum ex nobis 
unum confratrem de gremio nojiroj — licentiam veftram nobis 
concedere dignemini," 
LETTER XX. 
Prior i\<^r^>^ dying In 1471, two canons, by themfelves, pro- 
ceeded to eleftion, and chofe a prior ; but two more (one of them 
Berne) complaining of not being fummoned, objeded to the pro- 
ceedings as informal ; till at laft the matter was compromifed 
that the bifhop fhould again, for that turn, nominate as he had 
before. But the circumftances of thiseledion will be beft explained 
by the following extrad : 
Re G. Way N F L E T E, tom. II, pars 1""% fol. 7.^ 
Memorandum. A.D. 1471. Auguft22. 
Ullliam Wyndefor, a canon-regular of the Priory of Selburne, 
having been eledled prior on the death of brother John, appeared 
in perfon before the bifhop in his chapel at South f'Faltham. He 
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