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AT SOUTH WRAXHALL, WILTSHIRE.
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" a Mr. Long* liath a litle Maner about a niile from Minbketon-Farley at Wrexley.”
<£ The Original setting up of the House of the Longes cam, as I lernicl of Mr. ”
“ Fonehom, by this meanes
<£ One Long Thomas, a stoute felaw, was sette up by one of the old Lordes Hungre- ”
“ fordes. And after by cause this Thomas was caullid Long Thomas, Long after was”
“ usurpid for the Name of the Family.”
<£ This Long Thomas Master had sum Lande by Hungrefordes procuration.”
“ Then succedid hym Rohert and Henry.”
c< Then cam one Thomas Long descending of bYounger Brother, and could skille of”
<{ the Law, and had the Inheritances of the aforesaid Longes. Syr Henry and Sir”
“ Richard Long were Sunnes to this Thomas.”'f
And Camden gives a similar tradition, in accounting for the origin of surnames,
confirmatory of Leland’s hearsay, in the following words : — “ In respect of”
stature, I could recite to you other examples, but I will onely adde this ”
“ whicli I have read, that a young Gentleman of the house of Preux, being of”
“ tall stature, attending on the Lord Hungerford, Lord Treasurer of Englandf
“ was among his fellows called Long //., who afterwards preferred to a good ”
“ marriage by his Lord, was called H. Long, that name continued to his”
“ posteritie, Knights and men of great worship.”J
There seems little doubt but that credit is to be given to these statements,
more especially as Camden, who does not quote Leland, but must have read it
in some other author, gives the original surname of the long person, and
mentions that a good marriage was the means by which the Lord Hungerford
set him up. They disagree, certainly, as to the Ckristian name, in which, most
probably, Camden is right, for his authority being so minute in the other details,
was not likely to be incorrect in such an essential.
The first recorded possessor of South Wraxhall was Robert Longe, who was
in the commission of the peace in 1426, and M.P. for Wilts in 1433. He is
stated to have married Alice, daughter of Reginald Popham, of North Bradley,
Wilts, by whom he had issue three sons, Henry, John, and Reginald. In the
25th year of the reign of Henry VI. a.d. 1447, Henry was found to be his
* Sir Henry supr. lin. scribitur in Autogr. b A younger B.
* Sir Henry Long, in another place, “ Thus rydyng I lefte Avon streame, ahoute a 2 Miles on the lifte Hand. I ”
" markid 2 Places between Malmesbyri and Cldppenham notable. Draicote wher Sir Ilenrye Long hath a fair Manor”
“ Place, and a Park ahout a Mile from Avon Streame. Draicot is a 5 Miles from Malmesbyri, and a 2 Miles from ”
“ Chippenham.” — Itin. Vol. II. fol. 28 (p. 23, Oxon. 1711).
t Ibid. Vol. II. fol. 30 (p. 24, Oxon. 1711). £ Camden's “ Remaines,” hy J. Pkilipot, p. 142.
51
" a Mr. Long* liath a litle Maner about a niile from Minbketon-Farley at Wrexley.”
<£ The Original setting up of the House of the Longes cam, as I lernicl of Mr. ”
“ Fonehom, by this meanes
<£ One Long Thomas, a stoute felaw, was sette up by one of the old Lordes Hungre- ”
“ fordes. And after by cause this Thomas was caullid Long Thomas, Long after was”
“ usurpid for the Name of the Family.”
<£ This Long Thomas Master had sum Lande by Hungrefordes procuration.”
“ Then succedid hym Rohert and Henry.”
c< Then cam one Thomas Long descending of bYounger Brother, and could skille of”
<{ the Law, and had the Inheritances of the aforesaid Longes. Syr Henry and Sir”
“ Richard Long were Sunnes to this Thomas.”'f
And Camden gives a similar tradition, in accounting for the origin of surnames,
confirmatory of Leland’s hearsay, in the following words : — “ In respect of”
stature, I could recite to you other examples, but I will onely adde this ”
“ whicli I have read, that a young Gentleman of the house of Preux, being of”
“ tall stature, attending on the Lord Hungerford, Lord Treasurer of Englandf
“ was among his fellows called Long //., who afterwards preferred to a good ”
“ marriage by his Lord, was called H. Long, that name continued to his”
“ posteritie, Knights and men of great worship.”J
There seems little doubt but that credit is to be given to these statements,
more especially as Camden, who does not quote Leland, but must have read it
in some other author, gives the original surname of the long person, and
mentions that a good marriage was the means by which the Lord Hungerford
set him up. They disagree, certainly, as to the Ckristian name, in which, most
probably, Camden is right, for his authority being so minute in the other details,
was not likely to be incorrect in such an essential.
The first recorded possessor of South Wraxhall was Robert Longe, who was
in the commission of the peace in 1426, and M.P. for Wilts in 1433. He is
stated to have married Alice, daughter of Reginald Popham, of North Bradley,
Wilts, by whom he had issue three sons, Henry, John, and Reginald. In the
25th year of the reign of Henry VI. a.d. 1447, Henry was found to be his
* Sir Henry supr. lin. scribitur in Autogr. b A younger B.
* Sir Henry Long, in another place, “ Thus rydyng I lefte Avon streame, ahoute a 2 Miles on the lifte Hand. I ”
" markid 2 Places between Malmesbyri and Cldppenham notable. Draicote wher Sir Ilenrye Long hath a fair Manor”
“ Place, and a Park ahout a Mile from Avon Streame. Draicot is a 5 Miles from Malmesbyri, and a 2 Miles from ”
“ Chippenham.” — Itin. Vol. II. fol. 28 (p. 23, Oxon. 1711).
t Ibid. Vol. II. fol. 30 (p. 24, Oxon. 1711). £ Camden's “ Remaines,” hy J. Pkilipot, p. 142.