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AT SOUTH WRAXHALL, WILTSHIRE.
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Sir Thomas was son and heir of John Longe (second son to Robert),
who married Margaret, sister and coheiress of Thomas Wayte, of the Temple
and of Draycot, and younger daughter of Edward Wayte by Margaret
Popham, who, as is stated above, in her widowhood married Robert Longe.
By this intermarriage, the manor of Draycot* was acquired “ in jure uxoris,”
which was held, as Aubrey tells us, “ by petit serjeantie, viz. by being ”
“ marshall at the king’s coronation, which was the reason the Cernes, who ”
“ held it prior to the Waytes, gave the marshall’s lock for their cognizance.”f
This marshall’s lock was most probably adopted as a badge by Sir Thomas
Longe, and on the monument in question it is profusely scattered ; which
circumstance may be deduced as another reason for attributing it and the
chapel to his piety. He was sheriff in 1501, and executor to Richard Lord
St. Amand in 1508; he married Margery, daughter of Sir George Darell of
Littlecote, Wilts. Sir Thomas was among the “ roiTTpatgnj) Of UOtilf ”
<( tmnne ” who went, with Edward Duke of Buckingham, in 1496, to meet the
King (Henry VII.) at Taunton, then in pursuit of Perkin Warbeck.J This
circumstance, it is conjectured, was recorded by the painted glass which, in
Aubrey’s time, adorned the tracery-headed windows of the manor-house ; not
“ supported with two lyons passant guardant, w cl‘ seeme to have heen crowned or heaumed, and have a nechclotli w ch is ”
“ inveckted as low as his shoulders ; the one hath on his shoulder the (S/u'eZd) of the (Wings conjoined) ; the other ”
“ the (Shield) of Long. The South side was as the North, but now almost defaced. The Windows are all defaced of”
“ this Chapell, as also of the Church ; in the E. Window of the Chancel is only sign of a Scutizon.”
“ In the Cbapell,”
“ In f“ Here lieth the hody of Cap 1. John Long, Esq r. son of John Long, Esq. Justice of the Peace and Quo- ”
Freestone. \_“ rum, who departed this life in the City of Westminster, the 23 of Eebr. 1652. A marble blank.”
“ In freestone, here lieth the body of Will. Long, Esq. who dyed 11 Sept. 1664.”
“ Here lieth Walter Long, of South Wraxhall, Gent. son of John Long, Esq r. and Justice of Peace and Quor. ”
“ who died at East Brent, in Somerset, 11 Oct. 1669. Here lieth also the body of Barbara, his wife, who died 14 Oct. ”
“ 1669. Here lieth the body of William Awbrey, late of Chaddenew, in the parish of Meer, in y e County of Wilts, ”
“ Esq. who dyed 8 Jan. 1664. Are y e RSS. of 1649 not in y e Cpelle. In the Chapell are two handsome niches”
" and holy water-potte.”
“ Over a late dore, w ch opens into Long’s Chapelle, R. An. Dni 1566. L. (between the Marshall’s lock and the
Stag’s-head.)
* “ Dant quod villa de Draycot fuit de serjantia domini Regis, et Johannes de Venoys tenuit eam et similiter alias ”
“ terras per serviciam inveniendi in hospicio domini Regis terciam Virgam Marescalcie, etidem Johannes dedit terram ”
“ illam Magistro Henrico de Cerne per cartam suam ; quod donum dominus Rex nunc confirmavit per cartam suam, et”
“ Philippus de Cerne lieres ejusdem modo eam tenet.” — Rotuli Hundredorum, Vol. II. p. 235. Temp. Henry III.
t Auhrey's “ Collections for Wiltsf Part II. p. 63. Printed by J. Davy, Queen Street, Seven Dials. London,
1821.
J His companions from Wiltshire were, Morish Berheley, William Storton, John Semer, Richard Beauchamp, Roger
Tohete, Edwarde Darell, Amis Paulet, and William Saintemaur.—The Chroniclf, of John Hardyng, by Richard Grafton,
fol. 86, of the Continuation in prose. Lond. 1543.
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Sir Thomas was son and heir of John Longe (second son to Robert),
who married Margaret, sister and coheiress of Thomas Wayte, of the Temple
and of Draycot, and younger daughter of Edward Wayte by Margaret
Popham, who, as is stated above, in her widowhood married Robert Longe.
By this intermarriage, the manor of Draycot* was acquired “ in jure uxoris,”
which was held, as Aubrey tells us, “ by petit serjeantie, viz. by being ”
“ marshall at the king’s coronation, which was the reason the Cernes, who ”
“ held it prior to the Waytes, gave the marshall’s lock for their cognizance.”f
This marshall’s lock was most probably adopted as a badge by Sir Thomas
Longe, and on the monument in question it is profusely scattered ; which
circumstance may be deduced as another reason for attributing it and the
chapel to his piety. He was sheriff in 1501, and executor to Richard Lord
St. Amand in 1508; he married Margery, daughter of Sir George Darell of
Littlecote, Wilts. Sir Thomas was among the “ roiTTpatgnj) Of UOtilf ”
<( tmnne ” who went, with Edward Duke of Buckingham, in 1496, to meet the
King (Henry VII.) at Taunton, then in pursuit of Perkin Warbeck.J This
circumstance, it is conjectured, was recorded by the painted glass which, in
Aubrey’s time, adorned the tracery-headed windows of the manor-house ; not
“ supported with two lyons passant guardant, w cl‘ seeme to have heen crowned or heaumed, and have a nechclotli w ch is ”
“ inveckted as low as his shoulders ; the one hath on his shoulder the (S/u'eZd) of the (Wings conjoined) ; the other ”
“ the (Shield) of Long. The South side was as the North, but now almost defaced. The Windows are all defaced of”
“ this Chapell, as also of the Church ; in the E. Window of the Chancel is only sign of a Scutizon.”
“ In the Cbapell,”
“ In f“ Here lieth the hody of Cap 1. John Long, Esq r. son of John Long, Esq. Justice of the Peace and Quo- ”
Freestone. \_“ rum, who departed this life in the City of Westminster, the 23 of Eebr. 1652. A marble blank.”
“ In freestone, here lieth the body of Will. Long, Esq. who dyed 11 Sept. 1664.”
“ Here lieth Walter Long, of South Wraxhall, Gent. son of John Long, Esq r. and Justice of Peace and Quor. ”
“ who died at East Brent, in Somerset, 11 Oct. 1669. Here lieth also the body of Barbara, his wife, who died 14 Oct. ”
“ 1669. Here lieth the body of William Awbrey, late of Chaddenew, in the parish of Meer, in y e County of Wilts, ”
“ Esq. who dyed 8 Jan. 1664. Are y e RSS. of 1649 not in y e Cpelle. In the Chapell are two handsome niches”
" and holy water-potte.”
“ Over a late dore, w ch opens into Long’s Chapelle, R. An. Dni 1566. L. (between the Marshall’s lock and the
Stag’s-head.)
* “ Dant quod villa de Draycot fuit de serjantia domini Regis, et Johannes de Venoys tenuit eam et similiter alias ”
“ terras per serviciam inveniendi in hospicio domini Regis terciam Virgam Marescalcie, etidem Johannes dedit terram ”
“ illam Magistro Henrico de Cerne per cartam suam ; quod donum dominus Rex nunc confirmavit per cartam suam, et”
“ Philippus de Cerne lieres ejusdem modo eam tenet.” — Rotuli Hundredorum, Vol. II. p. 235. Temp. Henry III.
t Auhrey's “ Collections for Wiltsf Part II. p. 63. Printed by J. Davy, Queen Street, Seven Dials. London,
1821.
J His companions from Wiltshire were, Morish Berheley, William Storton, John Semer, Richard Beauchamp, Roger
Tohete, Edwarde Darell, Amis Paulet, and William Saintemaur.—The Chroniclf, of John Hardyng, by Richard Grafton,
fol. 86, of the Continuation in prose. Lond. 1543.