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Che Wiltshire Compounders. 
(Communicated by Mr. James WaYLen.) 
(Continued from p. 103.) 
IR JAMES LONG, of Draycot, Knt. The military career 
igi of this knight, if fully set forth, would be almost equiva- 
lent to a history of the County of Wilts during the wars. The 
sequestration of his property must therefore be our main subject. 
The first document that turns up is from the Falstone Day-book :— 
“At a council sitting at Malmesbury, 7 Oct. 1644, present Alexander Thistle- 
thwayte, Thomas Bennet, Robert Long, Thomas Goddard, Edward Martyn, 
Humphrey Ditton, John Reade, William Jesse, Edward Stokes, and Robert 
Good—It is—Ordered, that a party be sent out with a collector to sequester the 
rents of Mr. James Long of Draycot, and to seize his stock and goods.” 
At a subsequent sitting, in April, 1645, the Wilts Committee, 
resolved that for his present composition Sir James Long should 
immediately pay down £100, and £100 a year ever after; and as 
Mistress Dorothy Long, in her husband’s absence, accepted the 
conditions and expressed her desire that he would lay down his 
arms, they granted her a protection for house and goods; which 
was almost immediately after violated by one Thomas Vaughan, 
who, with a party of soldiers, pillaged her premises to the loss of 
£400. It was in vain that the committee, then sitting at Devizes, 
denounced the action as illegal, or that Sir James expostulated with 
the sequestrators in Goldsmith’s Hall—Mr. Ashe’s reply only 
amounted to this :—‘ That as the goods were taken by soldiers, and 
not by order of the Wilts Committee, the London Committee can- 
not interfere,” 
In the spring of 1645 Sir James Long, in his capacity of King’s 
Sheriff of Wilts, was, with almost his entire regiment of cavalry, 
captured by Cromwell and Waller in the neighbourhood of Devizes 
