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416:, Mary Keightley, was trying to recover a debt from Mr. James Long, and in consequence of the suit the Court sanctioned the sequestration of his estates. Three men, armed with a commission from the Court, were sent to Athelhampton, and their request for information about Long from the villagers met with an eager response. They were told that Long was certainly at Athelhampton House and they must be wary, for he kept a sharp look-out for his creditors. Two cases of pistols and several swords were laid out ready for use near the door of the house, and only the previous evening he had been heard firing his pistols towards the entrance gate. It was well known, too, they alleged, that bullets were being made in the house. Whether this was true, or the villagers merely amusing themselves, can only be surmised. 222: 352: 81: 396:"Wee both have the satisfaction to be asured that Sir James Long and his son have both forfeited their interest with Coll. Strangeways; the father by high unkindnesse and folly, the son by hard usage of his wife, who has betaken herselfe wholy to her father's (Strangeways) house, and by the foolish losse of £15,000 in one year at play, in so much that hee dare not stirr out of his house in the country" 22: 419:
However, despite initially being threatened with retaliation by four of Long's servants if they proceeded, the commissioners went to the house and demanded admittance. Long's wife Susanna called down to them from a window that her husband was abroad and that they would enter "at their peril".
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James Long married again and the name of his second wife was Mary Keightley. They had one daughter. James's sister Anna wrote approvingly to their mother that Mary had
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He married firstly, Anne, daughter of Sir William Dodington. There were no children from this marriage. He married secondly, c.1640, Dorothy, daughter of Sir
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Susanna's brother later asserted that his sister was "soe affrighted" by the deportment of the men that she languished, and in a short time died.
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in 1673. James married firstly, Susanna Strangways, daughter of leading civil war politician Colonel Sir Giles Strangways of
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in 1634. At his father's death in 1637, Long inherited the bulk of his Wiltshire estates, including the manor of
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Hand of Fate. The History of the Longs, Wellesleys and the Draycot Estate in Wiltshire. Tim Couzens 2001
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Carroll, Roy, The By-Election at Aldborough, 1673, Huntington Library Quarterly, 28:2 (1965:Feb.) p.157
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James appears to have continued his errant ways, when a further incident occurred in 1683. Certain
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He had entered the royal army and served in Sir Thomas Glemham's regiment at the beginning of the
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and was succeeded as 3rd Baronet by his 19-year-old grandson Robert Long. Robert died of
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in Dorset (also known as Admiston or Adminston), which had been inherited from
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became extinct in 1805 on the death of the 10-year-old 8th Baronet, son of
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Dorothy (c. 1650 –) married Sir Henry Heron of Surfleet, Lincolnshire
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Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire
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four days after his grandfather. Robert's brothers Giles and
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they were examined by Sir James Long and committed by him to
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Gaole. I think there were seven or eight old women hanged".
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Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset – 1915,
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His friend, historian 57:Magdalen College, Oxford 47:, Wiltshire, the son of 394:in December 1674 that: 204:of Witches detected at 179:He succeeded his uncle 165:, 1679, 1681, 1690–1692 533:Nicol, Cheryl (2016). 356: 226: 55:), he was educated at 26: 694:English MPs 1690–1695 684:English MPs 1680–1681 578:Baronetage of England 354: 224: 24: 103:improve this section 458:"Library Archives" 361:Athelhampton House 357: 227: 200:"When there was a 59:, and admitted to 27: 612: 611: 605:Succeeded by 410:Keightley v. Long 304:Sir Richard Mason 292:Edward Leech (MP) 273:Act of Parliament 217:Capture by Waller 168:Gentleman of the 139: 138: 131: 701: 689:English MPs 1681 679:English MPs 1679 598:(of Westminster) 584:Preceded by 574: 573: 548: 537:. 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