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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE
a vestige of this elegant accompaniment of Gothic architecture now remains,
save only a small portion in a window over the porch, which induced the
author to visit the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, where he transcribed
Aubrey’s notes, and took memoranda of the coats-of-arms (in the original,
all drawn and emblazoned): they will be found in the Appendix. Sir
Thomas Longe was knighted at the marriage of Prince Arthur; and his arms,
as entered in Claud. C. III., are Long and Seymour quarterly.* * * § He, the
author presumes, put up the brackets of the hall-roof shewn in Plate XV.,
as the fetterlock appears on one of thern; and probably added the Entrance-
Gateway, as, on one of the terminations to the label over the arch (which
is very flat, four-centred-pointed of late date) is the same fetterlock; on the
other was a stag’s head, now destroyed, but which was perfect when Aubrey
wrote.f
There is a great similarity in the plan and elevation of the hall and offlces
to Great Chalfield (distant only three miles) : so much so, that one would
almost imagine South Wraxhall, which is certainly the older of the two, served
as a model for that magnificent fabric, although the dimensions of the two are
very different; that at Chalfield being much larger. J
“ Sir Thomas Long, Knight, lyes buried by the north wall of the chancell,”
“ under a rich Gothique alter monument of freestone without inscription, his ”
“ heaume and crest do yet hang up.”§
The next possessor was Sir Henry Longe, Ivnight, son of Sir Thomas, who
was sheriff for Wilts in 1512, 1526, 1537, 1542 ; for Somerset, in 1538 ; for
* Margery, his wife, was daughter of Sir George Darell, by Margaret Seymour. “ MS. Pedigrees of Long,” by Beltz,
in the possession of Walter Long, Esq. M.P.
t He died in 1700, at Oxford, on his way to Draycot.
t See Part II. Examples of Gotihc Architecture, Third Series. Compare Pl. III. Great Chalfield,
with PI. II—III. South Wraxhall.
§ Collections for Wilts, Part II. p. 62. “ The coates of armes on tliis monument are as followeth : — West End : ”
“ I. S 4. John quartering Delamare. G. 2 lions pass. gard. O. South Side : II. Long. S. crusuly oflf crosslets and a li. r A.”
" III. Barkley impaling .... per pale 0. and az. a cross-moline counterchanged. IV. Long impaling Dayrell ”
“ Az. li. r. A. crowned 0. East End : V. Sevmour. G. two wings inverted 0. Ahout tlie cornice of tlie monument,”
“ thus : —West End: VI. 0. on a chief G. 2 stags’ heads cahossed 0. VII. Cerne. Az. a horse’s head coup. 0. VIII.”
“ Sturton. S. a bend 0 ht. 6 fountains. IX. The Marshall’s fett lock, or hand bolt. X. 0. on a chief G. a bezant”
“ hetween 2 stags’ heads cahossed 0. XI. Long imp. a chevron quartering Seymour. A cross crosslet. XII. Sturton,”
“ as hefore. XIII. Sturton between tvvo cross crosslets. XIV. Seymour, as before. XV.On a chevron”
“.3 bezants. XVI. A. on a chief G. a bezant between 2 wings O. XVII. A. li. r. S. collared 0.”
“ langued and armed G. XVIII. Az. a bend engrail colized 0. XIX. Idem cum XVII. XX. Long imp. quarterly ”
“.Q. Cerne’s coate, and if W'ayte did not marry tbe daughter and heir of Cerne ?” This monument
is engraved in the Gentleman’s Magazine for June 1835, and an amended description is given of it by C. E. Long, Esq.
wbo visited it.
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE
a vestige of this elegant accompaniment of Gothic architecture now remains,
save only a small portion in a window over the porch, which induced the
author to visit the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, where he transcribed
Aubrey’s notes, and took memoranda of the coats-of-arms (in the original,
all drawn and emblazoned): they will be found in the Appendix. Sir
Thomas Longe was knighted at the marriage of Prince Arthur; and his arms,
as entered in Claud. C. III., are Long and Seymour quarterly.* * * § He, the
author presumes, put up the brackets of the hall-roof shewn in Plate XV.,
as the fetterlock appears on one of thern; and probably added the Entrance-
Gateway, as, on one of the terminations to the label over the arch (which
is very flat, four-centred-pointed of late date) is the same fetterlock; on the
other was a stag’s head, now destroyed, but which was perfect when Aubrey
wrote.f
There is a great similarity in the plan and elevation of the hall and offlces
to Great Chalfield (distant only three miles) : so much so, that one would
almost imagine South Wraxhall, which is certainly the older of the two, served
as a model for that magnificent fabric, although the dimensions of the two are
very different; that at Chalfield being much larger. J
“ Sir Thomas Long, Knight, lyes buried by the north wall of the chancell,”
“ under a rich Gothique alter monument of freestone without inscription, his ”
“ heaume and crest do yet hang up.”§
The next possessor was Sir Henry Longe, Ivnight, son of Sir Thomas, who
was sheriff for Wilts in 1512, 1526, 1537, 1542 ; for Somerset, in 1538 ; for
* Margery, his wife, was daughter of Sir George Darell, by Margaret Seymour. “ MS. Pedigrees of Long,” by Beltz,
in the possession of Walter Long, Esq. M.P.
t He died in 1700, at Oxford, on his way to Draycot.
t See Part II. Examples of Gotihc Architecture, Third Series. Compare Pl. III. Great Chalfield,
with PI. II—III. South Wraxhall.
§ Collections for Wilts, Part II. p. 62. “ The coates of armes on tliis monument are as followeth : — West End : ”
“ I. S 4. John quartering Delamare. G. 2 lions pass. gard. O. South Side : II. Long. S. crusuly oflf crosslets and a li. r A.”
" III. Barkley impaling .... per pale 0. and az. a cross-moline counterchanged. IV. Long impaling Dayrell ”
“ Az. li. r. A. crowned 0. East End : V. Sevmour. G. two wings inverted 0. Ahout tlie cornice of tlie monument,”
“ thus : —West End: VI. 0. on a chief G. 2 stags’ heads cahossed 0. VII. Cerne. Az. a horse’s head coup. 0. VIII.”
“ Sturton. S. a bend 0 ht. 6 fountains. IX. The Marshall’s fett lock, or hand bolt. X. 0. on a chief G. a bezant”
“ hetween 2 stags’ heads cahossed 0. XI. Long imp. a chevron quartering Seymour. A cross crosslet. XII. Sturton,”
“ as hefore. XIII. Sturton between tvvo cross crosslets. XIV. Seymour, as before. XV.On a chevron”
“.3 bezants. XVI. A. on a chief G. a bezant between 2 wings O. XVII. A. li. r. S. collared 0.”
“ langued and armed G. XVIII. Az. a bend engrail colized 0. XIX. Idem cum XVII. XX. Long imp. quarterly ”
“.Q. Cerne’s coate, and if W'ayte did not marry tbe daughter and heir of Cerne ?” This monument
is engraved in the Gentleman’s Magazine for June 1835, and an amended description is given of it by C. E. Long, Esq.
wbo visited it.