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afterwards the loyal General and trusty counsellor of the two 
Charleses, Father and Son, who made him successively Marquis of 
Hertford in 1640, and Duke of Somerset in 1660. Thus terminated 
the connection of the House of Seymour with our parish. 
The sum paid by Edward Long for the “manor of Monkton alias 
Monketon juxta Broughton and all messuages, &c., thereto belonging 
within the villages, parishes, hamlets, or fields of Monkton, 
Broughton Gifford, and Melksham,” was £2100. The sum was 
small, but Edward Long bought the reversion only, and there was 
a jointure carved out of the property for ‘“‘Lady Jane wife of Edward 
Beauchamp.” Attached to the deed (which exists in duplicate, one 
copy among the Monkton, the other among the Hinton House 
documents) is a handsome seal with the Seymour arms, and Lord 
Hertford’s signature in most formal characters, an inch long. The 
estimated extent of the lands is 228 acres, nearly corresponding to 
the existing measurement, 220, the difference being probably a 
mere inaccuracy of early times. This estate seems to have held 
together, whereas Broughton was much cut up. The purchaser, 
Edward Long, was the second son of Sir Henry Long and Mary 
Horton, and together with his wife Anne Brounker was buried 
here. 
A decree in Chancery, 7 May 1599, gives an insight into Edward 
Long’s character. Henry Brounker, son of Sir William, agreed to 
sell Edward Long (his aunt’s husband) 60 acres of Broughton 
wood, but. made no legal conveyance of the same, not being at that 
time ina position to do so. Edward Long offered to sell, and did sell 
the wood to Sir William Eyre of Chalfield, whose property it joined, 
for £700. £100 was to be paid immediately, £200 placed in Sir 
Walter Hungerford’s hands, and £400 to be forthcoming by the 
following Christmas. Sir William without delay tendered Edward 
Long the £100. But “ Edward Long willed Sir William Eyre to 
make stay thereof, till Friday, because he was at that time to ryde 
to Wayhyll fayer, and therefore had no convenient time to receive 
the same. Sir William also paid £200 to Sir Walter Hungerford, 
and borrowed £400 for the final payment. But, though he was so 
ready to complete his share of the contract, Edward Long, thinking 
