WOODFORD. 177 



Diet, of England &c. S. Lewis, 7th Ed., 1849, 4to., Vol. IV., p. 459, adds : 

 " Sir Richard, created Earl of Tylney, 1731." 



"From Lord Tilney it (Wanstead Manor) passed to Sir James Tilney 

 Long, whose only daughter inherited this magnificent estate early in the 

 present century." 



The rest of the story. 



Annual Register, 1812. Chronicle p. 157. 



Marriages. March. " William Wellesley Pole, Esq., to Miss Long, 

 eldest daughter of the late Sir T. Long, Bart." 



Ann. Regist., 1823. Chron., p. 65. May. 



" Wanstead House was sold by auction on the premises on Monday last 

 for ^10,000. One of the conditions of sale binds the purchaser to clear 

 everything away, even to the foundation, by Lady Day, 1825. The biddings 

 commenced at ^1,000," &c, &c. 



" Thus is sacrificed to extravagance and gambling a mansion which cost 

 in its erection more than ^360,000, and which has no equal in the county of 

 Essex.'' 



Ann. Reg., 1825, p. 280. Deaths. 



" Sept. 12th. At Richmond, aged 35, Mrs. Wellesley-Pole-Long- 

 Wellesley. On the 19th, the remains of this amiable unfortunate lady were 

 removed from Richmond on their way to Draycot in Wiltshire, the seat of 

 Lady Tilney, there to be deposited in the family vault,'' <fcc. 



Tourist's Essex. E. Walford, l2mo., Lond., 1882. 



" The house was pulled down, to pay his debts, in 1822-23, ar >d h' s w 'f e 

 died soon after from a broken heart." 



William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, the husband of Mrs. Wellesley- 

 Pole-Long- Wellesley, succeeded to the Earldom of Mornington in 1845, and 

 died 1st July, 1857. (Burke's Peerage.) [J. L.] 



SIC transit gloria mundi. 



