WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



COG EN HOE 



The Warden overlordship is not mentioned after 1428,' 

 and seems to have been replaced by that of Hunting- 

 don for the whole lordship by 1468.- 



Norgiot held also in Great Harrowden and Welling- 

 borough in 1086; and the descent of fees in those places 

 to the Cogenhoes makes it likely that he was ancestor 

 of that family. Then, in the 12th century, came 

 NicholasdeCogenhoc, lord of Harrowden and Welling- 

 borough (q.v.), and William, lord of Cogenhoe.^ 

 Henry de Cogenhoe, who, about 1 175, gave St. An- 

 drew's Priory tithes of Harrowden,* may have been 

 lord here. .Another William was lord from 1202 or 

 earlier to about 1238, when the overlords of the two 

 fees made a joint presentation to the church as guardians 

 of his heir Nicholas. ' Nicholas, the traditional builder 

 of most of the church,* was a knight in the garrison of 

 Northampton castle in 1 264^ and held the manor and 

 advowson' until he was laid to rest in the beautiful 

 tomb he had no doubt prepared for himself, in 1280,' 

 when his son and heir William, aged 40,'° received 

 livery." Giles had succeeded by 1 3 1 3'- and died seised 

 in 1349 leaving a son and heir john,'^ who died in or 

 before 1361. His son and heir William'* was succeeded 

 in 1389 by a son William, aged 10," who died child- 



Cogenhoe. GuUs a /esse 



bttvfeen three tKiided 



lozenges argent. 



Cheyne, of Chcsham 



Bois. Cheeky or and 



azure a Jesse gules fretty 



ermine. 



less ten years later. His sister and heir Agnes'* married 

 John Cheyne of Isenhampstead Chenies, Bucks.," who 

 with his wife received seisin.'* Other settlements were 

 made;" and in 1444 John Cheyne alienated manor and 

 advowson to Thomas Cheyne of Chesham Bois, Bucks. ^^ 

 The former's son William released all right eight years 

 later to Sir John Cheyne (brother of Thomas) and 



Joan his wife.^' Later the property was settled on Sir 

 John and .Agnes his second wife. He died seised in 

 1468, when his heir was his great-great nephew John, 

 aged 3 (i.e. son of John, son of John, son of Sir Thomas 

 Cheyne).^^ This John made a settlement in 1500,'^ and 

 died seised in 1535 leaving a son and heir Robert.^* 

 He was succeeded in 1 552 by his son John,^' who died 

 seised in 1585 leaving a son and heir John.^* John, 

 through settlements on his younger brother Francis, 

 died seised of reversions only.^' His son Francis suc- 

 ceeded his uncle, now Sir Francis Cheyne, in 1620,^' 

 and was succeeded by his son Charles in 1644,-' who 

 sold the manor and advowson about 1655'° to — Bond.' ' 

 George Thompson and Margaret his wife conve>ed a 

 moiety of the manor and advowson to Elizabeth Bond, 

 widow, in 1678;-'^ and she and James Bond and Mary 

 his wife conveyed the advowson in that year to Samuel 

 Freeman^' husband of Susan Palmer. '■* They sold 

 the manor to Matthew Linwood, whose son Matthew 

 was lord about 1720.^' Matthew Linwood senior and 

 junior conveyed the manor in 1749 ^^''h courts baron 

 to John Palmer.'* His sister and eventual heir Barbara 

 married Eyre Whalley," and the manor is now vested 

 in the trustees of the Rev. John Christopher Whalley. 

 The church'* of ST. PETER consists 

 CHURCH of chancel, 23 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 6 in. with 

 chapel on the north side, 12 ft. 9 in. by 

 13 ft.; clerestoried nave, 38 ft. by 18 ft. 9 in., north 

 and south aisles, 10 ft. 2 in. and 1 1 ft. 2 in. wide respec- 

 tively, south porch, and west tower 11 ft. by 10 ft., 

 all these measurements being internal. The width 

 across nave and aisles is 44 ft. 9 in. 



The walling generally isof roughly coursed undressed 

 limestone mingled with local ironstone," but the latter 

 alone is used in the tower. The chancel and chapel 

 have modern high-pitched overhanging tiled roofs, but 

 elsewhere the roofs are of low pitch and leaded, behind 

 straight parapets. Internally the walls are plastered 

 and the floors flagged. 



The building was extensively restored in 1869-70, 

 when the north chapel, which had been long de- 

 molished, was rebuilt on its old foundations, the chancel 

 and aisles re-roofed, the nave roof strengthened, a new 

 east window put in the chancel, a west gaUery removed 

 and the tower arch opened out, and the old square 

 pews replaced b}' open seats.*" 



' Feud. Aids, iv, 42. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. IV, no. 51. 



' y.C.H. Norihants. i. 3763. Elijs 

 brother of William occurs late in the cen- 

 tury: Harl. Chart. 86, C. 41. 



• Farrer, Honors and Knights* Fees, ii, 

 389, where it is suggested that he was 

 Henry Noriot. 



' Rot. Robert Grosseteite (Cant, and 

 York Soc.), 178; Assixe R. (Northants. 

 Rcc. Soc.), no. 490; Cur. Reg. R. iii, 186; 

 Feet of F. Northants. 6 John, file 11, no. 

 181. 



' f.C.ll. Northants. i, 396. 



' Farrer, loc. cit. 



• Bh. 0/ Feel, 931, 938, 943; Cal. Close, 

 1237-42, p. i6<);Cal.ln^.p.m.u,t\o. 374. 



• Cal. Inj. p.m. ii, no. 400; y.C.H. 

 Northants. i, 396. '<• Ibid. 



'* Cal. Fine, i, 1 50. 



" Co/. /ny. ;>.m. V, 412, p. 235. 



'• Ibid, ii, 374; Cal. Fine, vi, 201; 

 Akbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rcc. Com.), ii, 203. 



'♦ Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill (iit 

 nos.), no. 55 ; Cal. Fine, vii, no. 190. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. 8; 

 Cal. Fine, x, 294. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 15; 

 Cal. Close, 1 396— 9, p. 435. 



" Cal. Close, I 396-9, p. 465. 



'• Cal. Fine, x\,l<)i. 



"> Feet of F. Northants. 2 Hen. IV, file 

 90, no. 12; 17 Hen. VI, file 94, no. 91. 



" Close R. 22 Hen. VI, m. 31. 



" Ibid. 30 Hen. VI, m. 21. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. IV, no. 51. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 15 Hen. 

 VII. '* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), Ivii, 35. 



" Ibid, icviii, 2. '* Ibid, ccx, 60. 



" Ibid, ccxtviii, 93. Francis also re- 

 ceived a Crown grant (Com. Pleas U. 

 Enr. Trin. 41 Eliz. m. 16). John is said 

 to have been disinherited (Bridges, op. cit. 



348). 



'• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccUxxiii, 

 83. There is in the church a plan, dated 

 1630, of lands in the manor belonging to 

 'the Right Worthy Mr. Francis Cheyne 

 Esq.'. 



" r.C.II. Bucks, iii, 219. He was 

 created Viscount Newhaven in 1681. 



'" Rccov. R. Trin. 1655, rot. 107. 



" Bridges, loc. cit. 



" Feet 0fF.N0rthant5.Trin.30Cha8.il. 



" Ibid. Mich. 30 Chas. II. 



^* Sec below. ^5 Bridges, loc. cit. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 22 

 Geo. II. 



" yisitation of Northants. (Harl. Soc), 

 16?. 



^' In the following description use has 

 been made of Mr. Albert Hartshornc's 

 paper on the church (read February 26, 

 1903) in Froc. Soc. Anti^. (Scr. 2), xix, 

 227, 



" 'The whole of the material for the 

 church was probably taken from quarries 

 on a site now known as "The .Mortar 

 Pits", about a quarter of a mile south-west 

 of tiic building.' 



*° The restoration was carried out under 

 the direction of Mr. C. Buckeridge, of 

 London. The original ea^t window- had 

 been replaced in the 17th centur\' by a 

 square-headed window of four lights, and 

 about 1820 the chancel roof had been 

 reduced to a very low pitch. A number of 

 old benches 'with linialled ends of pecuHar 

 design* were taken aii a type for the new 

 seats, but the old benches were discarded: 

 Prot. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xix, 244. 



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