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Robert Long (lawyer And Landowner)
Robert Long (died 31 March 1447) of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire, was an English lawyer and landowner. He served as a Member of Parliament, mostly as an occasional knight of the shire for Wiltshire, and was the founder of the prominent Long family of South Wraxall and Draycott. Early life Long was born in Wiltshire, the son of Thomas Long.Kightly, Charles, “Long, Robert (d. 1447), of South Wraxall, Wilts”, in J. S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe, eds., in ''History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386–1421'' (1993), pp. 551–552 He became a lawyer at the Inns of Court in London and in his legal career was greatly assisted by members of the Hungerford family, including Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, who employed him as an advisor and trustee. A Robert Long was acting as a deputy marshal in the Court of King's Bench by 1408, and this may have been the same man. Landholdings In 1409, Long bought land at Rode, Somerset. He later owned the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Wraxall
South Wraxall is a village and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, north of Bradford on Avon. The village is to the east of the B3109 road from Bradford on Avon to Corsham. The parish includes the village of Lower Wraxall, to the south of South Wraxall; one field separates the two villages. The hamlet of Bradford Leigh is in the southeast of the parish. History The name comes from old English ''wrocc'', meaning a buzzard, although it was also used as a personal name. Its name was first mentioned in 1468 as ''Suthwroxhall'', distinguishing it from North Wraxall which is away. Other spellings of the name included ''wroxhal'' (1227) and ''wrokeshal'' (1242). Nevertheless, South Wraxall was not mentioned in Domesday Book, as it was grouped in with Bradford on Avon. Domesday Book recorded a small settlement of seven households at ''Cubrewelle'', in the southwest of the modern parish. The name survives on maps as Great Cumberwell, and in the names of Cumberwell Park golf course a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Sarum (UK Parliament Constituency)
Old Sarum was from 1295 to 1832 a parliamentary constituency of England (until 1707), of Great Britain (until 1800), and finally of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was a so-called rotten borough, with an extremely small electorate that was consequently vastly over-represented and could be used by a patron to gain undue influence. The constituency was on the site of what had been the original settlement of Salisbury, known as Old Sarum. The population and cathedral city had moved in the 14th century to New Sarum, at the foot of the Old Sarum hill. The constituency was abolished under the Reform Act 1832. History In 1295, during the reign of King Edward I, Old Sarum was given the right to send two members to the House of Commons of England even though the site had ceased to be a city with the dissolution of Old Sarum Cathedral in 1226. The seat of the Bishop had moved to New Salisbury – and the location of the new cathedral – in 1217–18. All that rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs April 1414
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People From Wiltshire
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Long Family Of Wiltshire
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1447 Deaths
Year 1447 ( MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope. * March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia. * July 15 – The Spanish Inquisition is revived. * December **Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him, with the assistance of John Hunyadi. **The Albanian–Venetian War of 1447–48 begins. Date unknown * Roman II seizes the throne of Moldavia after killing his uncle, Stephen II, and will have his other uncle, Petru as co-ruler. * The Siege of Soest occurs, in the course of the Soest Feud. * According to '' Ryūs own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds ''Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū'', the earliest historically verifiable Japanese '' koryū'' martial art, that is still extant in modern times. Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Parliament
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in which the history of an institution is told through the individual biographies of its members. After various amateur efforts the project was formally launched in 1940 and since 1951 has been funded by the Treasury. As of 2019, the volumes covering the House of Commons for the periods 1386–1421, 1509–1629, and 1660–1832 have been completed and published (in 41 separate volumes containing over 20 million words); and the first five volumes covering the House of Lords from 1660-1715 have been published, with further work on the Commons and the Lords ongoing. In 2011 the completed sections were republished on the internet. History The publication in 1878–79 of the ''Official Return of Members of Parliament'', an incomplete list of the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements. A coat of arms or flag is therefore primarily defined not by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon (though in modern usage flags are often additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications). ''Blazon'' is also the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, the act of writing such a description. ''Blazonry'' is the art, craft or practice of creating a blazon. The language employed in ''blazonry'' has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full achievement (heraldry), heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest (heraldry), crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation. The term itself of 'coat of arms' describing in modern times just the heraldic design, originates from the description of the entire medieval chainmail 'surcoat' garment used in combat or preparation for the latter. Roll of arms, Rolls of arms are collections of many coats of arms, and since the early Modern Age centuries, they have been a source of information for public showing and tracing the membership of a nobility, noble family, and therefore its genealogy across tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long (of South Wraxall) Arms
Long may refer to: Measurement * Long, characteristic of something of great duration * Long, characteristic of something of great length * Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate * Longa (music), note value in early music mensural notation Places Asia * Long District, Laos * Long District, Phrae, Thailand * Longjiang (other) or River Long (lit. "dragon river"), one of several rivers in China * Yangtze River or Changjiang (lit. "Long River"), China Elsewhere * Long, Somme, France * Long, Washington, United States People * Long (surname) * Long (surname 龍) (Chinese surname) Fictional characters * Long (''Bloody Roar''), in the video game series Sports * Long, a fielding term in cricket * Long, in tennis and similar games, beyond the service line during a serve and beyond the baseline during play Other uses * , a U.S. Navy ship name * Long (finance), a position in finance, especially stock markets * Lòng, name for a laneway in Shanghai * Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Long (died 1490)
Henry Long of Wraxall (c. 1417 – 3 May 1490) was an English lawyer, landowner, and member of Parliament, and was three times Sheriff of Wiltshire. Born in Wiltshire, he was the son of Robert Long and Margaret Godfrey. In 1435 he was elected one of the two Members of Parliament for Old Sarum, and in 1442 for Devizes. He was a knight of the shire for Wiltshire in 1449, 1453–4, and again 1472–5 and served on various commissions between 1450 and 1488. He was also Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1456, 1475, and 1482–3. In Shakespeare's play '' Richard III,'' the Sheriff introduced in ''Act Five, Scene One'', was Henry Long of Wraxall, who was Sheriff in the time of Richard III, in 1483.Shakespeareana Genealogica: From King John to King Henry VIII. Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet - Page 242 Long married three times; to Joan Ernle Ernle was the surname of an English gentry or landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex who derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Long (MP For Cricklade)
John Long of Draycot Cerne (c. 1419 – 20 September 1478) was an English landowner and member of parliament. Born in Wiltshire, the son of Robert Long and Margaret Godfrey, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cricklade in 1442 and in 1449 was an Elector for Wiltshire. He died on 20 September 1478History of Parliament pp.550-1 and is buried at Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire. He married Margaret Wayte who, according to the printed Long family pedigree, was his half-sister. There were three sons from this marriage including Sir Thomas Long of Draycot Sir Thomas Long of Draycot (c. 1451–1508) was an English landowner and knight. He is known to have served as one of the Members of Parliament for the borough of Westbury in 1491 and was twice High Sheriff of Wiltshire. Life Born in Wiltshire, .... Further reading Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire; Cheryl Nicol References 1419 births 1478 deaths John Long English MPs 1442 Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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