338 Broughton Gifford. 
A chimney piece in the east bedroom is much older, the design 
being very different and more deeply cut. It looks like a portion 
of an old altar tomb, and may have come from Monkton Farleigh 
Priory in the Seymours’ time. It is too old for any house, of 
which there is any record here. It is to be hoped that John Long 
completed and paid for his improvements before 1649 and 1650. 
In those years he was a “delinquent” and his estate sequestered. 
He is styled “late of Haw,”’ in allusion to an estate which he oe- 
cupied in the parish of Bradford. 
John Long was succeeded by ‘his son Thomas, who married 
Margery Hungerford. An alliance with this distinguished house 
involved a handsome jointure. Accordingly, the bridegroom elect 
settled on the lady lands both in Monkton and Broughton. The 
names, given in the deed to many of the Monkton fields, still re- 
main—Amble croft, Goosehams or Cookshams, the Home piece and 
mead, Michel? mead (now correctly rendered, Great mead). The 
Butt (archery ground) is no longer to be traced. Name and thing 
have passed away. 
The estate continued in the Long family till 10th May, 1669, 
when it was sold by Thomas Long to Sir James Thynne of Long- 
leat. Margery, the wife of Thomas, joined in the conveyance of 
the property. Thomas Long appears to have rented the property 
till Lady-day 1671, at a rent of £260. By adeed of September, 
1671, Thomas Thynne of Longleat mortgages the property to 
John Hall of Bradford, and William Thynne of Longleat appears 
as the occupier. The Thynnes have left their mark on the house. 
The outer south door still bears their arms and motto. Thomas 
Thynne’s tastes and habits were expensive. “Tom of ten thou- 
1T state this on the authority of Mr. C. E. Long’s Pedigree of Long. But I 
must add, that searches in the State Paper Office (Mr. Long’s authority) show 
no other John Long, as a delinquent, but him of Kelloways. 
2 Michel or Mitchell, Anglo-Saxon Muchel (big), Scottice Muckle. 
3 Among the Harding deeds there exists a conveyance, dated 21st January 
1674, by Thomas Long of Rowden (where he afterwards resided) and Margery 
his wife, to John Harding of Charterhouse Hinton, of the Manor of Monkton 
near Broughton, with all its rights, members, and appurtenances, for £1221. 
What can this mean? How can it be reconciled with the previous sale to the 
Thynnes in 1669 ? 
