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By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson. 3387 
property enough, they are by no means the oldest property of the 
family of Long: as for instance, South Wraxal. This was Long’s 
in 1433, and is Long’s in 1872—439 years, without any intermission. 
The pedigree of this Wiltshire family, in its various branches, 
fills three or four large printed sheets ; so that you will hardly expect 
me to enter upon that subject. Nor do I consider it at all necessary, 
upon this occasion, to deal with it, except in a general way. It is 
a very difficult pedigree to follow, because there were so many 
branches and so many intermarriages. There were Longs of Wraxal, 
_ of Draycote (near Chippenham), of Whaddon, of Monkton in 
Broughton Gifford, of Semington, of Rood Ashton, of Trowbridge, 
and of Netheravon near Pewsey. The name itself occurs in Wiltshire 
at a very remote period, but the first person of known position as a 
landowner was Robert Long, of South Wraxal, M.P. for the county 
of Wilts in, 1433. It has often been said that he was brought out 
under the influence of the then potent family of the Hungerfords of 
Farley Castle; that the Walter Lord Hungerford of the day, Lord 
Treasurer of England in Henry VI., preferred Robert Long to a 
good marriage, and obtained for him some land. I have never been 
able to make this old story clearly out. I have in my own possession 
copies of more than 1200 deeds relating to the Hungerford family 
and their estates. In them the name of Robert Long often occurs 
as a confidential friend, a trustee, feoffee, and so forth. But there 
is only one which in any way refers to land obtained for him by the 
Hungerford family; and that was not at South Wraxal, which 
never belonged to the Hungerfords, but it was merely a trifling 
affair of a lease at a place called Highchurch near Falkland, just 
beyond Philip’s Norton. And as to the “ good marriage” to which — 
he was preferred, that point has been diligently enquired into: but 
I fear without perfect success. The matter is of course, at this 
time of day, of no very vital consequence; but as it relates to the 
very beginning of an old Wiltshire family, it is just one of those 
little obscurities which Wiltshire genealogists and archeologists 
would feel a pleasure in clearing up, if they could. 
The first great division of Long family property, was, as is well 
known, the separation of the Wraxal and Draycote estates, which 
