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This Zong Thomas master had sum lande by -Hungreforde’s 
procuration. 
Then succedid hym Robert and Henry. 
Then cam one Thomas Long descending of a younger brother, 
and could skille of the law, and had the inheritances of the afore- 
said Longes. Syr Henry and Sir Richard Long were sonnes to this 
Thomas. 
important marriage, the exact particulars of which have, however, never been fully 
explained. Upon it is the effigy of a lady only: and on the side of it is the shield of 
the Longs (as still borne by them) impaling, of course as the lady’s shield, what 
appears to be the coat of Berkeley quarterly with Seymour. There is in the pedigree 
of Long no authenticated proof of any match with a Berkeley at this period: yet, 
here, in the Longs’ chapel at South Wraxhall, is still in existence the undeniable 
testimony of this monument that such a marriage did take place. Camden says [in his 
« Remains’’], though without producing any authority, that the first of the Longs was 
“preferred to a good marriage by Lord Hungerford.’ Possibly this may haye been 
the marriage of which the Wraxhall tomb is evidence: and if so, then the Longs were, 
indeed, so far under obligation to him, as to be indebted for an introduction to some 
well endowed bride. But after all, this rests only upon Master Camden’s hearsay. 
There certainly was an intimacy of friendship between Robert Long, of Wraxhall, 
1430, and Lord Hungerford: and as the latter was one of the most important persons 
of the day, filling the great office of Lord High Treasurer of England, such 
acquaintance may not have been in any way to Robert’s disadvantage. His name 
constantly occurs in Lord Hungerford’s Title Deeds, as one of the feoffees, or trustees, 
to purchases of land made by that nobleman; but as it is always in connexion with the 
names of the principal gentlemen of this part of Wiltshire, and as moreover Robert 
Long was himself M.P. for the county in A.D, 1433, it becomes upon the whole more 
probable than otherwise, that though he may be the first from whom the Longs can 
trace with certainty, he was neither the first substantial person in the family, nor was 
he ‘‘set up” by Lord Hungerford. 
With respect to that part of ‘old Mr. Bonhome’s” story, which states that ‘they had 
some land by Lord Hungerford’s procuration;”’ the only circumstance bearing upon 
this point, that the writer of this note has ever met with, after a somewhat minute 
inspection into the history of the property of the Hungerfords, is, that Robert Long in 
A.D. 1421, held for 3 years a lease under Lord Hungerford, of the manor of Highchurch, 
in the parish of Hemington, co. Somerset. With this trifling exception, there is no 
evidence from Hungerford documents, that the Longs were in any way indebted to them 
for any part of their estates; and as to the name of the family, that, as we have 
already seen, may be pronounced to be a joke of neighbour Bonham’s. 
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