LONG, Thomas I

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 618-19.

Long was not among the most prosperous inhabitants of Rye, for he was assessed to pay 8s. for a scot levied there in 1415, whereas four other men were assessed at 13s. 4d. E. Suss. RO, Rye mss, 77/1, 2. As a Portsman of Rye he continued to claim exemption from parliamentary subsidies on his goods at Wivelridge and Hope until 1436. E179/226/69; 227/94. After the Parliament of 1437, to which he was returned in company with his presumed son, Thomas Long II, distinction was rarely made between the two men. However, it may be the case that Long senior died shortly after December 1438, the last time the younger man was called ‘junior’ in the surviving records. White and Black Bks. of Cinque Ports (Kent Rec. Ser. xix), 11.