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(for which see the history of that town). This was not his final 

 quietus in the county, and he seems to have joined the King- soon 

 after at Oxford. He was certainly there at the time of its surrender 

 to Fairfax. All, therefore, that remains to state is the settlement 

 of his fine, which immediately followed. He is still described as 

 Esq., and not as a knight. 



James Long, of Draycot, Esq., commanded a regiment in the 

 King's service; he has taken neither of the oaths; was at Oxford 

 at the time of its surrender, and is to have the benefit of the articles 

 of surrender. He is seised of the manor of Draycot and other 

 lands there, and a yearly rent of bull-rushes growing in the Avon, 

 together worth before the troubles £289 13.9. 4f/. per annum — copy- 

 hold at Draycot, £32 7s. — dry rents there, £9 13s. 4d. Mr. Curteen 

 and Sir Edward Heron owe him £700, but his own debts are £1600. 

 He claims to be allowed a fee-farm rent to the Crown, of which £4 

 is a rent to the Church and poor of the parish ; also an annuity 

 payable to Elizabeth Oldsworth by deed of Sir Walter Long. Also 

 he pays £20 a year to the Vicar of Sutton, in lieu of tithes, which 

 is but a modus declmandl. Such is his actual estate ; but he con- 

 siders he has a good title to lands in the forest of Gualties in 

 Yorkshire, though he was never in quiet possession, and the deeds 

 have been taken from him ; as also to the manor of North Bradley, 

 in Wilts, after the decease of Robert Long, his uncle; therefore 

 prays a saving to compound for the same when he shall have by law 

 recovered them. Fine at two years, £714. 28th November, 1646. 



In passing the ordinance for his pardon, the Lords except his 

 right to advowsons or presentations to any Church or Chapel ; and 

 stipulate further that the two bonds above-mentioned from William 

 Curteen and Sir Edward Heron having been ordered and allotted to 

 John Dove, of Salisbury, Esq., for and towards the reparation of 

 his losses and damages sustained through the action of the said 

 James Long and others ; now, if Mr. Long shall revoke or release 

 either of these bonds, then this present composition shall be null 

 and void. Lords 1 Journals. 6th January, 1648. 



George Lowe, of Calne, Esq., M.P. for Calne. The delinquency 



