LONG, Walter (1592-1672), of Whaddon, Wilts. and Whitcott Keysett, Salop.

Family and Education

bap. 3 Sept. 1592,Hants RO, 44M69/L16/4. 2nd s. of Henry Long (d. 1612) of Whaddon and Rebecca (d. 1651), da. of Christopher Bailey of Stoford, Wilts; bro. of Robert Long*.CB; Wilts. RO, 78/42. educ. L. Inn, 30 Apr.1611;L.I. Admiss. i. 155. travelled abroad (north Africa), Aug. 1620-1621.Hants RO, 44M69/L34/3; SP14/117/60; C142/394/5. m. (1) 26 Dec. 1621 (with £500), Mary (d. Apr. 1631), da. of Robert Coxe, grocer of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.; (2) (settlement 3 Nov. 1633), Anne (d. July 1665), da. of Anthony Cage of Longstow, Cambs., wid. of Sir Richard Foxe (d. 24 Mar. 1632) of Whitcott Keysett, s.p.; (3) 2 Jan. 1666 (with £1,150), Elizabeth (d. 1688), da. of John Cotes of Woodcote, Salop, s.p. suc. bro. Henry, 1621; cr. bt. 26 Mar. 1661.CB; Wilts. RO, 947/904/1, 2; 947/906; 947/1132; 947/1676/1; CSP Dom. 1631-3, p. 29; Hants RO, 44M69/L34/25; Vis. Shropshire 1623 (Cam. Soc. xxviii), 194; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. ser. 2, xii. 158-9. bur. 15 Dec. 1672 15 Dec. 1672.Whaddon par. reg. (BT).

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Wilts. 1623 – 26, Mar. 1660–d.;C231/4, f.150; Harl. 286, f. 297; Harl. 1622, f. 86; A Perfect List (1660). Salop 17 Feb. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650.C231/6, p. 74. Commr. subsidy, Wilts. 1624, 1629, 1641, 1663.C212/22/23; Add. 34566, f. 132; SR. Sheriff, 4 Nov. 1627–1628, 1671–2.Coventry Docquets, 361; List of Sheriffs, comp. A. Hughes (L. and I. Soc. ix), 154; Wilts. RO, 947/1860/2. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672;SR; A. and O.; Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Salop 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648. 1642 – ?A. and O. Dep. lt. Wilts. 18 Mar.; Salop 6 Sept. 1642–?CJ ii. 485b, 755a. Commr. levying of money, Essex 24 May 1643; commr. for Salop, 13 June 1644; for Wilts. 1 July 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Salop 12 Mar 1660.A. and O.

Civic: freeman and member of forty-eight, Salisbury 1625 – 29; freeman and member of twenty-four, 26 Sept. 1639.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, ff. 318v, 411v. ?Freeman, Bath by 1628.C219/41A, f. 61.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan. 1642;CJ ii. 375b. cttee. for advance of money, 21 Jan. 1643;CJ ii. 938a. cttee. of navy and customs, 2 Nov. 1643;CJ iii. 243b, 299a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) bef. 27 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 740a. col. 1643.Add. 11757, f. 70; HMC 5th Rep. 87.

Legal: registrar, chancery, 30 May 1644 – Aug. 1647, 19 Oct. 1659–?May 1660.CJ iii. 326b, 327b, 510a, 511a, 511b, 513a, 515b; vii. 877b; LJ vi. 330b; Whitelocke, Diary, 576–7; G.W. Sanders, Orders of the High Ct. of Chancery (1845), i. 288–90; HMC 7th Rep. appendix, 79–80, 85; T.D. Hardy, Principal Officers in Chancery (1843), 120.

Parlimentarian

LONG, Walter II (1592-1672), of Whaddon, Wilts.; later of Whitcott Keysett, Salop

: Wilts. and Salop., Whitcott Keysett.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LONG, Walter (1592-1672), of Whaddon, Wilts. and Whitcott Keysett, Salop.

Will

12 Sept., pr. 19 Dec. 1672.PROB11/340/517.

Estates

income c.1630, in possession manor and advowson of Whaddon, and lands in Melksham, Hinton, and Steeple Ashton, Wilts.; manor and advowson of Rodmorton, Glos.; and lands in Bawdripp, Som. totalling £1,045 11s 8d p.a.; in reversion house and demesnes of manor of Southwick, land at Priston totalling £445 3s 4d p.a.;Wilts RO, 947/958. from Oct. 1634, 2 messuages and 500 acres of pasture in Melksham;Coventry Docquets, 666. 765 acres in Bawdripp from fen drainage;W. Dugdale, The history of imbankment and drayning (1662), 112. 1656, lands in Whaddon;Wilts RO, 947/1643. 24 and 25 June 1658, 1,660 acres 2 rods and 26 poles in barony of Slane and Co. E. Meath and Leinster, Ireland.Wilts RO, 947/1132.

Oxford 1644

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