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A N T I QJJ I T I E S 
" In Dei nomine Amen," &c. A. D. 1478, Maii 19. In the 
chapter-houfe for the eleftion of a prior for that day, on the free 
refignation of Peter Berne, having celebrated in the firft place mafs 
at the high altar " De fpiritu fanfto," and having called a chapter 
by tolling a bell, ul maris ejl; in the prefence of a notary and 
witneffes appeared perfonally Peter Berne, 'J'homas Ajhford, Stephen 
Clydgrove, zwdjohn Apton, prefbyters, and HemyCanwood'', in chapter 
aflembled ; and after Tinging the hymn * p^eni Creator Spiritus,' 
cum verficulo et oratione ' Deiis qui corda declarataque li- 
centia Fundatoris et patroni ; futurum priorem eligendi con- 
" ceffa, et conflitutione confilii generalis que incipit * ^ia 
*' propter* declaratis; viifque per quas poffent ad hanc eledionem 
procedere," by the decretorum doBorem, whom the canons had 
taken to dired them — they all and ev^ery one " dixerunt et affir- 
" marunt fe nolle ad aliquam viam procedere : — but, for this turn 
only, renounced their right, and unanimoufly transferred their 
power to the bifhop, the ordinary of the place, promifing to receive 
whom he Ihould provide ; and appointed a prodlor to prefent the 
inftrument to the bifliop under their feal; and required their notary 
to draw it up in due form, &c. fubfcribed by the notary. 
After the vifitor had fully deliberated on the matter, he proceeded 
to the choice of a prior, and elected, by the following inftrument, 
John Sharp, alias Glajicnhnry. 
-■^ Here we fee that all the canons -were changed in ux years ; and that there was quite 
a new chapter, Berm excepted, between 1472 and 1478 ; for, inftead of W^ndefor, 
London, and Stralfe'd, we find Ajh/ord, Ciydgyo-vc, Ajlton, and Can-ivood, all new men, 
who were foon gone in their turn off the Ibge, and are beard of no more. For, in 
fix years after, there fecm to have been no canons at all. 
Fol. 
