180 Descent of the Manor of Draycot Cerne. 
skille of the law,” viz., Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas, eldest son 
of John, the first owner of Draycot, “and had the inheritances of 
the aforesaid Longes.”” From John Longe then, this younger 
brother, the Draycot estate descended, through ten generations in 
the male line, to the late Mrs. Long Wellesley, and so to her son, 
Lord Wellesley, the present possessor. It will, therefore, be clear, 
from the foregoing statement, that there was no descent of Long 
from either Cerne or Heryng, and, it may be observed, in further 
confirmation of this, that whenever the armorial bearings of the 
Longs of Wraxhall and Draycot are noted in the early MSS. at the 
British Museum and at the Herald’s College, the quarterings are 
invariably confined to Popham and Seymour, and that there has 
never been any pretence, in any authentic document, to introduce 
any Coat of Cerne or Heryng. The Coat of Philip de Cerne, as 
tricked in Glover’s Ordinary at the College of Arms, f. 60, appears 
to have been, Quarterly Or and Gules a lion rampant within a 
bordure, all counter-changed. The shields on the monumental slab 
of Sir Edward de Cerne, still, with the effigies of himself and his 
second wife, existing in Draycot Church, were unfortunately torn 
away before the days of Aubrey, but the cutting of the stone for 
the insertion of the brass, proves plainly that the crest which 
surmounted the helmet was a demi-lion rampant. With regard to 
William Ryngeborne it might seem, at first sight, a question 
whether the interest he took under the above limitation, was 
beneficial or fiduciary. There can, however, be really very little doubt. 
His position was obviously that of a Trustee, to carry out some 
legal fiction, probably to represent the real purchaser Robert Longe 
the father, and we find him holding the office of Escheator for the 
Crown, for Wiltshire, on this Ingnisition of Richard de Cerne, 
sixteenth of Henry the Sixth, (1437-8), the year in which the - 
conveyance was executed. It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence 
that this William Ryngeborne and his family, appear, on another 
occasion, in connection with the Longs. 
One moiety of the manor of Barton Sacy in Hampshire, now 
called, in error, Barton Stacey, was held by these Ringebornes, 
while the other moiety devolved upon John Long by his marriage 
