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and the inference derived from scattered allusions in early times, of 

 friendship, if not of kindred, as leading to that conclusion. " 



We have mentioned first these several contributions to periodical 

 works ; but our deceased friend had also appeared more distinctly 

 as an author. His name was placed on the title-pages of two im- 

 portant pamphlets published in 1832 and 1833 in relation to 

 Colonel Napier's " History of the Peninsular War," and written 

 in defence of the military conduct of his uncle, Lieutenant-General 

 Robert Ballard Long, in the campaign of 1811. 



In 1845 he compiled with great care, and with the assistance of 

 the present Garter, (to whom it was dedicated,) and other friends 

 at the College of Arms, a volume entitled " Royal Descents : a 

 Genealogical List of the several Persons entitled to Quarter the 

 Arms of the Royal Houses of England." This work, though 

 confined to shewing those who had a representation of royal blood, 

 was welcomed with much approval by all students of genea- 

 logy ; and was immediately imitated by the present Ulster, Sir 

 Bernard Burke, in a larger work, in which he launched forth on 

 the wider field of mere descent from royalty. 



In 1859 Mr. Long edited for the Camden Society the " Diary of 

 the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War ; 

 kept by Richard Symonds : from the Original MS. in the British 

 Museum," a work valuable for its historical data, but more par- 

 ticularly for its church notes and heraldic memoranda. 



Mr. Long was characterized by a cheerful and genial temper, 

 ever manifesting itself in courtesies and kindnesses which endeared 

 him to a wide circle of friends, and to many in a humbler sphere 

 of life. His residence was usually in London, where he mixed 

 sufficiently with the world to maintain an interest in the politics of 

 the Whig party, to which he was attached, and to acquire all the 

 information current in the best society ; and the extent of his 

 information derived both from men and books made his conversa- 

 tion as agreeable as his manners were ingratiating. He was 

 unmarried, but has left two sisters, of whom one (Mrs. Douglas) 

 is married. 



His body was interred, by his own desire, in the churchyard of 



