234 Bradford-upon- Avon. [Parish Church. 
kind of monumental memorial. It contains a female figure a little 
more than three feet in length, habited in the well known costume 
of the time of Elizabeth, with the large ruff, and high head-dress. 
Underneath is the following inscription :— 
‘HERE LYETH BURYED THE BODY OF ANNE LATELY SOLE DAVYGHTER AND 
HEIRE oF JOHN YEWE oF BRADFORDE IN THE Covnty or WILTES, GENT, 
AND WIFE oF Gyrrorp Loner, GENT, WHO HAD ISSUE BY HER ANNE AND 
CATHERYN THEIR DAVGHTERS. SHE DYED THE Xxvi'* or MARcH 1601. 
WHOSE KNOWNE GOOD LYFE SHEWETH THAT GOD HATH TAKEN HER SOWLE 
TO HIS MERCYE.” 
At each of the four corners of the slab are shields containing the 
arms of ‘Long of Monkton,’—‘ Sable, a lion passant argent, on a 
chief of the second, three cross crossilets of the first.’ 
Of their two daughters Anne and Catherine, the one was bap- 
tised in the Parish Church in 1598, and the other in 1601. The 
former became, in 1630, the wife of William Bromwich. 
Gyfford Long served the office of Sheriff of Wilts in the year 
1624. By asecond wife, Amy, relict of Robert Wingatt of Biscott, 
Co. Beds. and daughter of John Warre of Hestercombe, Co. Somer- 
set, he left several children.! 
Murat Tasrets, &c.? 
The walls of the Church exhibit a considerable number of 
memorials, some of them being good specimens of modern sculp- 
1 The following extract from a pedigree of ‘Long of Semington, Trowbridge, 
and Whaddon,’ kindly furnished to me by C. E, Long, Esq., will shew that, 
through a female branch, there was a connection between the two families, to 
some members of which the two brasses in question were placed as memorials. 
Henry Long_Mary d. of Thomas Horton of Iford. 
of Whaddon. [See preceding pedigree 1. 4.] 
Edward Longe of Monkton,_Anne d. of Henry Brounker of 
ob. 1622. Melksham, M.P. for Devizes, 
[Grantee of the arms above ob. 1607. 
described, May 5, 1589,] 
1 wife, Anne d. and = Girrorp Loner =2 wife, Amy d. of John Warre 
h. of John Yewe of of Rood Ashton, of Hestercombe, Co. 
Bradford. (and four others.) Somerset, and relict of Robert 
Wingatt of Biscott, Co. Beds. 
2My special obligations are due to my friend, the Rey. Edward Wilton, for 
valuable help,—as readily offered, as it is thankfully acknowledged,—in en- 
abling me to give a complete account of the ‘heraldry’ in the Church. W. H. J. 
