222 Memoir of the late Charles Edward Long, Esq. 



Lord Henry Molyneux Howard, Deputy Earl Marshal, having 

 married his aunt,) gave him an introduction that was peculiarly 

 advantageous, and which his own intelligence and good sense, 

 accompanied by very agreeable manners, did not fail to improve. 

 His researches were made with great taste and perseverance, and 

 with a severe regard for truth. His own descent gave him some 

 personal interest in such investigations ; for his great-grandfather, 

 Samuel Long, Esq., eldest son of Charles Long, Esq., M.P., of 

 Hurts-hall, Suffolk, had married Mary, second daughter of Bar- 

 tholomew Tate, Esq., of Delapre Abbey, Northamptonshire, and 

 sister (and at length co-heir) of Bartholomew Tate, Esq., a co-heir 

 to the baronies of Zouche of Hariugworth, St. Maur, and Lovell of 

 Gary. 



During many years Mr. Long was a frequent correspondent of 

 the Gentleman's Magazine. 



To the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, he communi- 

 cated several rolls of arms ; the voluminous papers relative to 

 the disputed kindred of Wickham of Swalcliffe to the founder 

 of New College ; and a series of Hampshire Church-notes, taken 

 b}' himself. 



Several of his communications will also be found in the Journal 

 of the Archaeological Institute; and many in "Notes and 

 Queries." 



Mr. Long also took a considerable interest in the history of 

 Wiltshire, and was an earnest promoter of the objects of our 

 Society. He contributed to this Magazine in 1856 the "Descent 

 of the Manor of Draycot Cerne," with a pedigree of Cerne and 

 Hering, vol. iii. p. 178 ; and subsequently four successive articles 

 on the biography and adventures of " Wild Darell" of Littlecote, 

 the last of which appears in the present Number. He also pro- 

 cured for the same publication, from the Duchy of Lancaster Office, 

 a survey of several manors in the count}' of Wilts, temp. Elizabeth. 



In the first of these contributions (vol. iii. p. 181), Mr. Long 

 modestly disclaims the intention of putting himself forward as "of 

 the undoubted blood and lineage of the knightly race of Wraxhall 

 and Draycot," but mentions "family traditions, a Wiltshire origin, 



