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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE.
Wroxhally coram altd cruceancl, among many otlier bequests, in pios usus,
he leaves “ to the parochial Church of Wroxhall xxs. for vestinents.”*
The maiden surname of his widow is not known, but, from a monument
still existing in the Long’s Chaiiel at Wraxhall Church, which bears the arms of
Long impaling Berheley quarterly with Seymour (to the memory of a widow,
as the crimping of the cap sufficiently testifies), who must have been a Berkeley
by an heiress of Seymour, it may be safely presumed that this monument, with
which the chapel is coeval, was erected by
Sir Thomas Longe, Knight (who inherited the estates of his uncle), to the
memory of his aunt; and that she was a daughter of Thomas Berlceley by
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Seymer,\ this being the only match on record
the dates of which will warrant the marriage with a Long. This monument,
of which a woodcut is subjoined, is of late date, as may be seen by the style of
mouldings, the sculpture of the figures, and the form of the shields.J The
figure is partly restored, as shewn by the dotted lines.
* See his will, at length, in Appenclix, No. III. t Le Neve’s Baronets, Vol. I. Coll. Arms.
$ This monument, and the chapel which was huilt for it, is thus noticed by Aubrey, in his MSS. under
“ s. Wraxall.” “ In the Church here in Long’s Chapelle an old altar monument of freestone on w ch lies a figure”
“ with a robe, but so cov ed with a deske not well to be discerned. I guess it to be of a woman. In the limbe are the ”
“ Marshall’s locbs as in the margin: in the middle of y e N. side is an Angel holding y e Scutcheon in the margin,”
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE.
Wroxhally coram altd cruceancl, among many otlier bequests, in pios usus,
he leaves “ to the parochial Church of Wroxhall xxs. for vestinents.”*
The maiden surname of his widow is not known, but, from a monument
still existing in the Long’s Chaiiel at Wraxhall Church, which bears the arms of
Long impaling Berheley quarterly with Seymour (to the memory of a widow,
as the crimping of the cap sufficiently testifies), who must have been a Berkeley
by an heiress of Seymour, it may be safely presumed that this monument, with
which the chapel is coeval, was erected by
Sir Thomas Longe, Knight (who inherited the estates of his uncle), to the
memory of his aunt; and that she was a daughter of Thomas Berlceley by
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Seymer,\ this being the only match on record
the dates of which will warrant the marriage with a Long. This monument,
of which a woodcut is subjoined, is of late date, as may be seen by the style of
mouldings, the sculpture of the figures, and the form of the shields.J The
figure is partly restored, as shewn by the dotted lines.
* See his will, at length, in Appenclix, No. III. t Le Neve’s Baronets, Vol. I. Coll. Arms.
$ This monument, and the chapel which was huilt for it, is thus noticed by Aubrey, in his MSS. under
“ s. Wraxall.” “ In the Church here in Long’s Chapelle an old altar monument of freestone on w ch lies a figure”
“ with a robe, but so cov ed with a deske not well to be discerned. I guess it to be of a woman. In the limbe are the ”
“ Marshall’s locbs as in the margin: in the middle of y e N. side is an Angel holding y e Scutcheon in the margin,”