Family and Education
b. c. 1598, ‘Long Fam. Database’ (Wilts. RO, typescript). 3rd s. of Sir Walter Long (d.1610) of South Wraxhall, Wilts. and his 2nd w. Catherine, da. of Sir John Thynne† of Longleat, Wilts., bro. of Walter I†. educ. L. Inn 1619, called 1627. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 270. unm. cr. bt. 1 Sept 1662. CB. d. 13 July 1673. sig. Rob[ert] Long.
Offices Held

Sec. to ld. treas. Marlborough (Sir James Ley*) by 1625–8, E404/234, unnumb. item, 20 Apr. 1625, Long to Sir Robert Pye; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1625–49, p. 722. to Prince Charles 1645–9; Clarendon, Hist. of the Rebellion ed. W.D. Macray, v. 323. servant to Charles I by 1633; CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 35. gent., privy chamber by 1639, Ibid. 1638–9, p. 419; LC3/1. surv.-gen. to Queen Henrietta Maria c. 1639 – 46, by 1661–9; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 273; 1660–1, p. 478; G. Aylmer, King’s Servants, 368. clk. of Pleas, Exch. by Dec. 1642, SP16/493, f. 131. auditor of receipt (roy.) 1643 – 46, 1662–d.; CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 494; Exchequer Officeholders comp. J.C. Sainty (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xviii), 208. sec. of state 1649–52; Clarendon, v. 323. PC 1649 – 52, 1672–d. D. Underdown, Roy. Conspiracy, 60; CSP Dom. 1672, p. 313; Clarendon, v. 2.

Freeman, Devizes, Wilts. 1626, member of the Twelve 1627–d.; Wilts. RO, G20/1/17, ff. 40, 56. commr. sewers, Northants., Norf., Lincs. and Lincoln, Lincs. 1629, C181/4, ff. 31, 41. Lincs. 1630-at least 1639; Ibid. ff. 34, 37; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1625–49, p. 602. recvr., recusancy fines S. parts 1639–46; C66/2427/19; SC6/Chas.I/1653; St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf (Harl. Soc. Reg. xli), 25. commr. corporations, Yorks. 1662–3, HMC 8th Rep. i. 275. kpr. (jt.), Somerset House, Mdx. 1664–d. CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 505.

Commr. to prevent export of butter 1636, CSP Dom. 1635–6, pp. 240, 250. to compound with tobacco traders 1636, T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 377. to supply the army 1639, Ibid. 897. sequestration (roy.), c.1643–5. CCC, 950.

Main residences: Westminster; Worcester Park, Surr.
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Commons 1604-1629
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LONG, Robert (c.1598-1673)

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Oxford 1644
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