Long, Thomas

The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.

(1621-1707), divine: s. "Mr. Richard Long"; b. Exeter; he became a servitor of Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated B. A., 1642; became in 1652 vicar of St. Lawrence Clyst, near Exeter, and, being a staunch churchman and royalist, he lay under a long sequestration during the troubles, upholding the interests of the king and the church by constant preaching and writing; at the Restoration he was created B. D. of Oxford, by royal mandate, on September 20, 1660, and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral on January 18, 1660-1661; in 1684 he declined Sancroft's offer of the bishopric of Bristol on account, it is said, of his age and large family; he was proctor for the clergy of his diocese (Exeter) in convocation in 1689, in 1693 and 1694; he was well read in both ancient and modern literature and was a voluminous controversial writer; he was firmly persuaded that Charles I was the author of the "Eiken Basilike", and in support of this view took part in the war of pamphlets which followed the publication of Walker's "True Account of the Author," in 1692; he wrote many works on religion.

Source: Long Family Records

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