] 804. 
right have been formerly occafioned there 
by the cogs of mill-wheels, for the ufe 
of which the lowne({s of its fituation was 
peculiarly applicable, and more efpecially 
fince we find a will exilting here fo long 
back as 1086, ihe period when the Domef- 
day furvey was completed. 
Among the vait poffsflions which foon 
after 1066 fell tothe fhare of Odo, bifhop 
of Baieux, and bafe brother to the Con- 
queror, was the manor of Cogges, which 
at the completion of the Domefday Inqui- 
fition, appears to have been held under 
him by one Wadard. The manor is 
there defcribed to confift of five hides and 
eight carucates of land, two of the latter 
only in ‘demefne. On thefe, three fervi, 
or bondmen, are the only tenants on re-~ 
cord. The mill and hay produced each 
ten fhillings in the year. ‘The meadow- 
land occupied eleven quarantenes, or fur- 
longs, in its length, and two in width. 
. The pafture, three in length, and one in 
breadth. The woodland eighteen qua- 
rantenes by fix. And the net produce of 
the whole, both in the Confeffor’s and the 
Conqueror’stime, was ten pounds. 
Odo, who poflefied no Jefs than an hun- 
dred and eighty-four lordfhips in the 
county of Kent alone, and two hundred 
_and fifty-five in other counties,, thought 
himfelf rich enough to make a purcliale of 
-the papacy wheneyer it fell vacant. In 
¥082, he colle&ted- his treafures, fent a 
portion cf them on to Rome, and was pre- 
“Paving with a great retisue to follow, when 
William, hearing of his defign, haftened 
over from Normandy, furprized him in 
the Ifle of Wight juli as he was going to 
fet fail, arrefted him, as Earl of Kent, 
with hisown hands, and fent him prilener 
to Roan, After this difgrace, the king 
confifcated all his poffeffions, part of which 
he diftributed to certain knights for the 
defence of Dover Cattle, among whom was 
William de Arfic, whofe fucceflors at 
Cogges, fo late as 1327, paid fifty-two 
fillings and fixpence towards the ward of 
the caftle, as the tenure of their eftate. 
The difgiace of Odo happened four’ 
years previous to the completion of the 
general finvey; but as thofe counties where 
his poffeffions Jay, in all probability, were 
vifited by the Commiflioners long previous 
to 1086, the lands and their tenures were 
a¢ compleatly afce:tained as if the names 
of thofe who pofletled them under W1l- 
liam’s recent grants, had been inferted. 
This is probably the reafon why William 
de Arfic is unnoticed as the lord of 
Cogeges. 
Monrury Mac, No. 122, 
Antiquities of Cagges. 
395 
Manaffer, fon of William, jut men- 
tioned, referving to himfelf the manor or 
lordthip of Cogges, gave the church, with 
-lands and tithes in divers other places, to 
the monks of Fecamp, in Normandy ; 
who fent over part of their convent, and 
founded here a cell to that their foreign 
monattery. 
Fecamp, it need hardly be mentioned, 
is a town and fea-port, in what ufed for- 
merly to be called the Pais de Caux, about 
five and forty miles from Rouen. Its 
abbey was originally founded for nuns by 
Count Waning, in 664; was burnt by 
the Normans, in 841, and rebuilt by 
Richard the firft Duke of Normandy. 
Richard, the fecond Duke, removing thefe 
nuns to Montvilliers, placed here in their 
{tead fome canons, and a fhort time after- 
ward monks of the order of St. Benedi&ts 
whofe abbey was indulged to confiderable 
privileges, and foon became one of the 
vicheft of the Norman monatteries. ? 
-Manafler’s firft gift appears to have been 
‘made in 1103, the third year of Henry I. — 
who confirmed the donation, and its he 
berties, in 1110. i 
The poffeflions of the Cogges’ monks 
feem to have been very little, if it all, im- 
proved at any fubfequent period of time : 
and with the exception that their lands and 
revenues were continually feized during the 
wars with France, till the alien monatte- 
ries were finally diffolved, by a& of par- 
liament, in the fecond year of Henry V. 
there is little on record that adds a fingle 
feature to their hiftory. 
One circumftance, however, muff not 
be omitted ; that, in 1348, William Hamo, 
or Hremo, who had been feven years prior 
of the convent, was made furgeon to the 
king ; the falary granted to him on the 
occafion, as appears by the original patent, 
ftill remaining in the Tower, was no lefs 
than thirty pounds a year. At this pe- 
riod the profefiions of medicine and fur- 
gery were almoft entirely confined to the 
religtous 3; and the largenefs of the funa 
here granted, inclines me to think either 
that the prior’s fkill was in great reputa- 
tion, or that one of the conditions of his 
engagement was that he fhould attend 
Edward to the wars in France. 
After the diffolution of the foreign 
cells, Henry VI. in purfuance of a plan 
projected by his father, made Cogges, 
among other alien poffeffions, a pait of the 
demefnes with which he endowed his new 
foundation at Eaton ; where feveral char- 
ters relating te the old foundation are fill 
preferved. 
3k The 
ety, 
