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of Walter Long of Whaddon for £1400. The portion of the 
manorial rights was small, only one twenty-fourth, but five mes- 
suages, a mill, a dovecot, 30 acres of arable, 10 acres of pasture, 
and 20 of wood, went with it. 
Being now sole lord of the manor, Sir John very properly built 
a manor house. He previously seems to have resided at Elston. 
But from this time to his death he seems to have lived at Brough- 
ton, in a house built by him at the Cross. The last of our resident 
lords. A scrap of paper, torn and almost illegible, shows that a“ diff- 
erence arose between Sir John Horton Kt. and one Peter Chapman 
clothier, about a sertayne small parcell of land, whereon the walls 
of the kitchinge of Sir John Horton’s house by the Cross Pathe is 
proposed to be builded.” This was in 1620, and in 1629 he came 
here. From that time to his death he administered his own affairs, 
and was his own steward. His note and rent books remain. Here 
his politics do not appear. But the family were all Roundheads. 
They belonged to the class, then more numerous than now, of 
“middling sized gentry,” of good blood, of fair but not large for- 
tune, in their habits simple, in their callings gentlemen farmers, 
in their manners uncourtly but kind, in their faith Protestant 
Christians, in their politics what we should call constitutional 
Royalists, in the pursuit of all their ends, whether spiritual or 
temporal, earnest, brave, and self-reliant. From such came Vane, 
Hampden, Cromwell, Ludlow, Blake, and the bulk of the “ country 
party.” Nothing but narrow minded mismanagement in Church 
and State made these men Puritans and Republicans. Let no 
modern revolutionist claim them as kinsmen. They were essen- 
tially aristocrats, had grandfathers, and knew who they were, could 
point to long pedigrees without a flaw, fought under their family 
banners, recruited among their retainers and friends, freeholders 
and county neighbours all, gentlemen to the back bone, held to 
truth, honour, and “the spirit of a gentleman,” derived their chief 
pleasures from the country side, their chief hopes from futurity. 
Among these the Hortons threw in their lot. I do not find any 
of them sitting in the Long Parliament. But Sir John was him- 
self a Commissioner for the Parliament in Gloucestershire, his son 
