316 Broughton Gifford. 
was to be paid to Eleanor after her husband’s decease, and 50 
marks to Anne Eyre, their daughter, with benefit of survivorship 
to either of them in the annuity of the other.’ The husbands of 
the three daughters, Alice, Mary, and Anne May, were respectively, 
Edward Horton of Westwood (already the purchaser of a quarter 
of the manor from John Talbot in 1584), Henry Longe (son of Sir 
Henry Longe of Whaddon), and Jeremy Horton nephew of Ed- 
ward: each of them had, in right of their wives, one twelfth (one 
third of a quarter). Omitting various interchanges, the property 
was at last thus: Edward Horton had, by purchase and by mar- 
riage, one quarter plus one twelfth, equal to one third. In 1603, 
19 January, Henry Longe settled half of his share, 7c. half of one 
twelfth, equal to one twenty-fourth, on his own heirs (we shall hear of 
this one twenty-fourth again) ; the other half of his share he sold 
to Jeremy Horton, who thus became possessed, by marriage and 
purchase, of one twelfth plus one twenty-fourth, equal to one eighth. 
Jeremy Horton had by his first wife, Anne May, two sons, Edward 
and John. Edward was the heir of his great uncle, and so the 
owner of one third: he died under age leaving John to inherit the 
shares of his father and brother, i.e. one eighth plus one third, equal 
to eleven twenty-fourths. John Horton, 15th May 1622, purchased of 
William Brounker one half (originally Alianora Gifford’s). 23rd 
Nov. 1627 he purchased of Walter Long! (grandson of Henry 
1T cannot forbear quoting Mr. C. E. Long’s account of this Lord. ‘Sir 
Walter Long was one of the celebrated members sent to the Tower; he was 
prosecuted in the Star Chamber and fined 2000 marks 1628. In 1646 the 
Parliament voted him £5000 as an indemnity. In 1647 the army brought a 
series of charges against him, which he refuted. In August of the same year, 
he and others fled to France, ‘‘ because” as Holles says (who was his companion 
in exile) ‘‘ the princes of the Philistines loved them not.” Having ‘fled from 
petty tyrants to the throne,” he returned at the Restoration, and was made a 
baronet. Clarendon calls him one of the chiefs of the Presbyterian party. He 
commenced his career of patriotism on the Tonnage and Poundage question, 
continued it by charging at the head of a troop of horse (raised by himself) at 
Edgehill where his horse was shot under him; and was equally the opponent of 
the despotic power of the King and the Protector.” The precise occasion for the 
enmity of the “‘ princes of the Philistines” was this. In the Spring of 1647 
the Parliament were debating how to disband the army, twenty, or thirty thou- 
sand strong. The expense of it great; the need of it, now the Royalists were 
