LONG, Robert (d.1447), of South Wraxall, Wilts.

Family and Education

s. of Thomas Long. m. (1) bef. 1417, Margaret,W. Chitty, Hist. Fam. Long, 49-50. There is no contemporary evidence that his 1st w. was Alice, a da. of Reynold Popham of North Bradley, Wilts. as given in Burke’s Commoners, iii. 212. 4s. inc. Henry, John and Richard; (2) by 1428, Margaret (b. 1 May 1400), da. and event. h. of Sir Philip Popham of Barton Stacey, Hants, wid. of John Cowdray and of William Wayte of Draycot, Wilts.

Offices Held

?Dep. marshal, KB by Jan. 1408-aft. Feb. 1414.Sel. Cases King’s Bench (Selden Soc. lxxxviii), pp. xx, 178, 222.

Alnager, Som. 27 Oct. 1409-Nov. 1413.

Commr. of inquiry, Wilts. July 1421 (wastes, Devizes park), Oxon., Berks., Wilts., Hants July 1427 (concealments), Wilts. June 1433 (post mortera), Sept. 1440 (arson), Apr. 1442 (theft of wine); to raise royal loans, Wilts. May 1428, Feb. 1441; assess a parliamentary levy June 1433; distribute a tax allowance Dec. 1433; administer oaths against maintenance Jan. 1434; of array Jan. 1436, Mar. 1443; gaol delivery, Old Sarum Jan. 1440.

J.p. Wilts. 12 Feb. 1422 – d.

Foreign apposer at the Exchequer 20 May 1426–21 Nov. 1431.PRO List ‘Exchequer Offs.’ 82.

Bailiff of the bp. of Salisbury’s liberty, Salisbury by 1427-aft. 1440.J.C. Hoare, Modern Wilts. (Salisbury), 698; Tropenell Cart. ed. Davies, i. 230–1, 260; Salisbury RO, ‘Domesday bk.’ 3, ff. 106, 111, 114, 117, 123, 126, 130.

Escheator, Hants and Wilts. 4 Nov. 1428–12 Feb. 1430.

Parlimentarian

LONG, Robert

Main residence: South Wraxall, Wilts.

Author

C.K.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

LONG, Robert (-d.1447)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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