LONG, John (c.1517-c.1600/2), of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.; later of Lymington, Hants.

As Newcastle-under-Lyme was a borough within the duchy of Lancaster, Long’s patron for his parliamentary seat in 1563 was presumably Sir Ambrose Cave, chancellor of the duchy. Long’s connexion, through his mother, with the elder branch of the Dudleys may have commended him to Cave. At Shaftesbury the patron would have been the and Earl of Pembroke, with whom there was a marriage connexion through Long’s brother Edmund having married a daughter of Nicholas Snell, the 1st Earl’s steward. Long is not mentioned in the extant journals of either of his Parliaments and he did not sit again during the remainder of his long life. He made his will, ‘feeble of body and diseased with infirmities’, on 9 July 1600, commending his soul to ‘the Father that made me, the Son that redeemed me and the Holy Ghost that comforteth me’, and asking to be buried at Lymington. The will was proved on 11 June 1602.VCH Hants. iv. 647; Harl. 888, f. 20; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. n.s. vi(2) (1903), pp. 244, 256; Vis. Hants. (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 118; E. King, Old Times Revisited, 32, 219, 223, 290; Lymington Recs. 16; HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, ii. 326, 355; VCH Wilts. V. 116; PCC 17 Ketchyn, 43 Montague.