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and heir, and the Estates, both in Dorset and in Wilts, de- 
volved to him. The line of his descent from a common ancestor 
with the deceased possessor, is given in both Inquisitions in a 
narrative form, though there is an omission of one descent, a mere 
clerical error, in the Wilts Inquisition, viz., the one in the sixteenth 
of Henry the Sixth, (1437-8). These pedigrees are curious, as 
exhibiting the accuracy with which genealogies must have been 
preserved at that period, for the relationship was, as will be seen, 
extremely remote, and yet, on reference to the several Inquisitions 
and other documents, the correctness in the recital of these descents 
is fully borne out. In the thirty-fourth of Henry the Sixth, 
(1455-6), John Heryng died, leaving his grandsons, John de la 
Lynde and John Russell, his co-heirs, as appears from his Inqui- 
sition: but he did not die seized of Draycot, and, on further 
research, it is shown that, by a fine levied in the sixteenth of Henry 
the Sixth, (1437-8), he had conveyed his reversionary interest in 
the manor and advowson, expectant on the decease of Isabella, 
relict of Edward de Cerne, the father of Richard, to William 
Ryngeborne for life, to be held by the nominal payment of a rose 
at the feast of the nativity of John the Baptist, with remainder to 
John Longe, the son of Robert Longe, and in default of heirs of 
his body, to Richard Longe, brother of John, and the heirs of his 
body; in default to Reginald Longe, another brother, and the heirs 
of his body; in default to Robert Longe, the father, and the heirs 
of his body, and failing these, to the right heirs of the before- 
mentioned John Heryng. At the date of this conveyance there 
was then living an elder brother of John Longe, viz., Henry 
Longe, who eventually succeeded his father, Robert, at Wraxhall, 
but, dying without issue, that property descended to his nephew 
Thomas, the eldest son of his next brother John. Thus the two 
properties of Wraxhall and Draycot became thence-forward united, 
and so remained, until their severance on the decease of Sir Walter 
Long in 1610. There was then some truth in the traditional tale 
recounted by Leland.—“ Then succeeded him,” viz., the supposed 
first possessor of Wraxhall, “Robert and Henry. .... Then cam 
one Thomas Longe, descending of a younger brother, and could 
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