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notwithstanding 1 her promise aforesaid, she married him. She mar- 

 ried at South Wraxal, where, in the old manor-house, the picture of 

 her first husband, painted on wood, hung over the parlour door. As 

 Sir Edward Fox was leading- his bride by the hand from the church, 

 into the house, just as they passed through the parlour door, the 

 string of the picture broke, and down upon her head came husband 

 No. 1. The picture was cracked in the fall — and so was the lady's 

 head. She remembered her promise ; and it drew some tears from 

 her eyes. 



Draycote continued in the second house of Long, until only a 

 few years ago, when it passed into the Wellesley family. Wraxal 

 has remained, and still remains, in the representative of the elder 

 house. 



As to the rest of the various properties in this immediate neigh- 

 bourhood belonging to the different branches of the Long family, 

 it cannot be expected that I should enter into private details. It is 

 enough just to say, that either by descent, by will, by marriage, or 

 by purchase, they have in course of years (Draycote excepted) 

 centred in one gentleman, the host, this afternoon, of the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological Society. 



J. E. Jackson. 



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By John Thurnam, Esq., M.D., F.S A. 



Report of an Address delivered on Bratton Down, during an Excursion of the Society, 

 August 8th, 1872. 



THURNAM began by observing that the Barrow on and 

 Wm around which those present were now standing, though placed 

 in the centre of the British encampment,popularly known as " Bratton 

 Castle/' is probably of much earlier date, and has none but an 

 accidental connection with that earthwork. It is a Long Barrow 



