OF SELBORNE. 
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flailed, and fent the ufual letter to the convent to render him due 
(Obedience. 
Thus did the bifhop of JVincheJier a fecond time appoint a 
flranger to be prior of Selborne, inftead of one chofen out of the 
chapter. For this feeming irregularity the vifitor had no doubt 
good and fufficient reafons, as probably may appear hereafter^ 
LETTER XXL 
Whatever might have been the abilities and difpofition of 
prior Fairwife, it could not have been in his power to have brought" 
about any material reformation in the Priory of Selborne, becaufe 
he departed this Ufa in the month of Auguji i^."]!, before he 
had prefided one twelvemonth. 
As foon as their governor was buried the chapter applied to 
their vifitor for leave to chufe a new prior, which being granted,, 
after deliberating for a time, they proceeded to an eledrion by a 
fcrutiny. But as this mode of voting has not been dcfcribed but 
by the mere form in the Appendix, an extrad from the bifhop's 
regifter, reprefenting the manner more fully, may not be difa- 
greeable to feveral readers, 
Wayneflete Reg. tom. 11. pars i"*, fol. 15. 
*' Reverendo &c. ac noftro patrono graciofiffimo veftri humiles, 
et devote obedientie filii," &c. 
To. 
