Family and Education
b. c.1417, s. and h. of Robert Long* by his 1st w.; Tropenell Cart. ed. Davies, i. 115; C139/126/16. er. bro. of John* and Richard*. m. (1) by June 1441, Joan (d.1468/9), da. of Richard Malwyn of Etchilhampton, Wilts.; CIPM Hen. VII, i. 657. (2) Margaret, da. of John Newburgh II* by his 2nd w.; (3) Joan. s.p. Dist. 1458, 1465.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Wilts. 1447.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Wilts. Aug. 1449, June 1453; of array Sept. 1450, Dorset, Som., Wilts. Sept. 1457, Wilts. Dec. 1459, Aug. 1461, Oct. 1469, Mar. 1470, Mar. 1472, May, Dec. 1484; gaol delivery, Old Sarum castle Jan. 1452, Gloucester castle Feb. 1453, Old Sarum castle Feb. 1454, July, Dec. 1455 (q.), Oct. 1458 (q.), Berks., Oxon. June 1460 (q.), Old Sarum castle Dec. 1461 (q.), Dec. 1463 (q.), Mar., Sept. 1464 (q.), Feb. 1465 (q.), July 1466 (q.), Salisbury July 1467 (q.), Old Sarum castle Nov., Dec. 1467 (q.), Sept. 1471 (q.), Apr., Nov. 1472 (q.), Dec. 1475 (q.), Nov. 1477, Mar., May 1482 (q.), Nov. 1484 (q.); C66/474, m. 21d; 476, m. 2d; 478, m. 14d; 480, m. 13d; 481, m. 20d; 486, m. 20d; 489, m. 6d; 494, m. 19d; 500, m. 18d; 506, m. 11d; 508, mm. 2d, 15d; 515, m. 8d; 518, m. 12d; 519, mm. 4d, 12d; 527, m. 11d; 529, m. 21d; 530, m. 1d; 547, m. 12d; 549, m. 23d; 558, m. 19d. to assign archers, Wilts. Dec. 1457; of oyer and terminer June 1459, Berks., Hants, Oxon., Wilts. June 1460, Dorset, Som., Wilts. May 1462, Wilts. June 1470; inquiry July 1459 (goods of William Temys*), E159/235, commissiones Trin. Nov. 1459 (lands late of Sir John Fastolf), Sept. 1461 (lands of Edmund Stradling), Oct. 1470 (felonies), Sept., Dec. 1473 (concealments), Dorset, Wilts. Dec. 1475 (treason and heresy), Wilts. May 1485 (riots), Aug. 1486 (concealments); arrest, Berks., Hants, Herts., Kent, Mdx., Oxon., Surr., Suss., Wilts. June 1460 (adherents of the duke of York), Salisbury Dec. 1460, Wilts. July 1484; to assess tax July 1463, Aug. 1483, Jan. 1488; take assize of novel disseisin, July 1467.

J.p.q. Wilts. 16 Mar. 1453–d. The appointment of John Long to the bench on 23 Mar. 1480 was prob. a mistake for Henry: CPR, 1476–85, p. 577.

Steward of Richard Beauchamp, bp. of Salisbury, by Nov. 1455-aft. Nov. 1458. Wilts. Hist. Centre, Salisbury city recs. ledger bk. 2, G23/1/2, ff. 21, 36v.

Sheriff, Wilts. 17 Nov. 1456 – 7 Nov. 1457, 7 Nov. 1474 – 5 Nov. 1475, 5 Nov. 1482 – 6 Nov. 1483.

Main residence: South Wraxall, Wilts.
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