Sussex Record Society Volume 4 - Sussex Record Society

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... first celebrated in our Church, we met again in our Chapter house between the hours of 8 and 9 on the same Friday, and excluding the laity and all others except those with whom the right of election rested, the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus with the collect "Subdeacon's " further on. electionis negocio procedere quoquomodo, sed quod vices aut vota talium siqui postea inventi f uerint nulli prestent suffragium nee alicni afferant nocumentum, immo pro non dictis et non receptis penitus habeantur. Quaquidem protestatione premissa lectisque literis licencie memorate ac constitutione consilii generalis Quia propter ac formis in ipsa contentis particulariter et luculenter nobis expositis, statim subito et repente absque ulteriori deliberatione seu tractatu et absque nominacione cujuscunque persone et actu intermedio qualicunque, nulla instigacione hominis de qua constabat instigati, Spiritus Sancti gracia ut verisimiliter creditur et speratur inspirati, predictus Ricardus Seforde Supprior Johannes Ryekeman Stephanus Grey Thomas Mason Galfridus Grey in ordine sacerdotali et Johannes Bury in ordine subdiaconatus constituti in dictum Robertum Chamberleyne virum utique providum et discretum, vita et moribus commendandum, in spiritualibus et temporalibus circumspectum, dictum ordinem Sancti Benedicti in prefato prioratu nostro expresse professum et in sacro sacerdotali ordine constitutum, unanimiter consensum probavimus et eum una voce et uno spiritu concorditer elegimus in nostrum ac dicti prioratus nostri priorem, et continuo ipsum, sic quasi per inspirationem Spiritus Sancti electum, ad chorum Ecclesie nostre coram summo altare Te deum laudamus altius decantantes duximus finitoque dicto ympno et quadam collecta subsecuta dictus Ricardus...