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REGNAL 
Cuartes I. From 27th March, 1625. 
[All the Sheriffs of Charles the First were chosen a few 
days before the Regnal year began]. 
1 1625 | Sir Francis Seymour, Knt. 
Great grandson of the Protector Somerset : afterwards 
Baron Seymour of Trowbridge. 
1626} Sir Giles Estcourt, Knt. OfNewnton. Baronet 1626. 
1627 | Walter Longe, Esq.! Of Whaddon. Baronet 1661. 
1628} John Duckett, Esq. Of Hartham near Corsham. 
1629} Sir Robert Baynard, Knt. 
Of Lackham. Son of the Sheriff 1 Mary. 
6 1630} John Topp, Esq. 
Of Stockton. Believed to have been the builder of 
Stockton house. [Heyts. 242]. 
7 1631 | Sir Edward Hungerford, K.B. 
Of Corsham and Farley Castle. The Commander of 
the Parliamentary Forces in Wilts; against whom 
Wardour Castle was defended by Lady Arundel. 
8]. 1632! Sir John St. John, Knt. 
Of Lydiard Tregoz. The second Baronet. Son of 
Oliver St. John, Esq. 
o fF CO WD 
1 Walter Longe was one of those members of the House of Commons, who, in 
the third Parliament of Charles I., for ‘‘ undutiful carriage” on the question of 
Tonnage and Poundage, were committed to the Tower. All refused to find 
sureties except Walter Longe, who was bailed, but afterwards desired like the 
rest to be discharged from any recognizance, and so was committed to the King’s 
Bench. 
In Hilary Term the same year, 1628, an information of perjury and neglect 
of his office was exhibited in the Star Chamber against Longe, for that he, being 
Sheriff of Wilts, procured himself to be elected a Burgess for Bath in Somerset, 
whereas there was a clause in the writ that no Sheriff should be elected. He 
confessed himself to be Sheriff; had taken the oath; was elected and attended 
Parliament: that he had written two letters, unto two friends in Bath, and 
conferred with five others; but does not admit having laboured his election or 
against it. His Counsel argued that the writ did not forbid. But Longe was 
fined 2,000 marks, to be imprisoned at the pleasure of the king in the Tower, 
and to make his submission to the king with acknowledgement of his offence. 
Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, p, 60. 
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