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Long, Sir Robert
The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.
(d. 1673), auditor of the exchequer: s. Sir Walter L of Wraxhall and Draycot in Wiltshire; member of parliament for Devizes, 1625, for Midhurst, Sussex, 1640, and for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, 1661; held office of surveyor of the queen's lands; in 1644 he became secretary of the council for the Prince of Wales; at the Restoration he was made a baronet, 1660; chancellor of the exchequer, 1660-7; made auditor of the exchequer, 1662; on Sept. 22, 1670, Charles II granted him a long lease of the Great Park, Great Park Meadow, and a house called Worcester House, all at Nonsuch, Surrey; became a privy councillor, 1672; was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Source: Long Family Records
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