The following is. he lift of priors, who 
were ufually nominated by the foreign 
monaftery, as faras I could obtain them 
‘from the Lincoln regifters ; 
Hugh. 
3227. John de London; a monk of 
Cogges. 
3237. Elerius. 
1248. Gervafe; another monk. 
3251. William de Efmerville; a monk 
of Fecamp. 
Hugh. 
1262. William Barbeyn ; another monk 
of Fecamp. 
1277. Hugh; another. 
Stephen de Alba Malla. 
3z9t. Matthew de Ponte. 
~ 3299. Roger the Hardy. 
3302. Vigor; a Fecamp monk. 
31304. William de Limpevilla. 
3333- Ranulph le Frifon. 
1342. William Hamo, or Hremo. 
Befide the charters already {poken of at 
Eaton, and two or three antient records 
in the Tower (viz. Fin. Oxon. 25. Hen. 
3. n. relating to a mill and lands at Fe- 
ringford: and Pat. 40. Edw. 3. p. 1; 
m. 41, 42. of the manors of Chiltenham in 
Gloucefterfhire, and Navenby in Lincoln- 
Shire) we have fcarce any monuments re- 
Jating to the priory of Cogges. ‘There is 
a copy of a charter of Rob. de Arfic, of 
the time of John, in the Britifh Mufeum 
(Harl. M.S. 2044. f. 105.), and a com- 
pofition €encerning tithes in Little Barton, 
Oxfordfhire, in the chartulary of Ofeney 
Abbey, now preferved at Chrift Church, 
Oxford. Befide which it appears they held 
the manor of Waverle in the county of 
Southampton (MS. Dodiw. in the Bod- 
feian xi. f. 117.) 
In its prefent ftate, Cogzes has very lit- 
tle to attract attention. The reliques of 
‘the priory, with the exception of the 
church, are very few. The church-tow- 
er, at the lower part, is fyuare; from the 
middle upward, of an hexagon form, and 
finifhes with a fort of round cap. The 
pointed arch feparating the chancel from 
2 north chapel, refts on the eait fide, cn the 
eapital of a pillar, which alfo ferves as a 
canopy, covering what in ancient times 
was called the Sacrarium Pijcing, through 
which the Hoft, if injured or corrupted, 
was ufually pafled, that it might not be 
polluted by irreverent hands. - The roof 
of the church is of wood, fupported by 
rude figures, and a neat ornamented cor- 
nice on the wall. The fouth aifle is fepa- 
gated from the body of the church by two 
pointed arches, refting ona Norman pillar ; 
and the north aifle by three others, refting 
Antiquities of Cogges: 
[ Dec. 1, 
upon oétagon pillars, in the Gothic ftyle ; 
the beams compofing the reof of which 
are fupported by feveral figures, in a rude 
and very antient taite, reprefenting per- 
fons with mufical intruments, the prin- 
cipal of which are the pipe and tabor, 
guittar, harp, violin, and bagpipes. 
The only monument that deferves par- 
ticular notice, is an altar-tomb between 
the upper and the lower chancel, probably 
of the fifteenth century. On it lies the 
figure of a Jady, in a gown with long 
fleeves, veiled head-drefs, and wimple 
over the chin. Angels at the head of the 
figure, and at the feet a lion. 
ments at the fides and ends, are in Gothic 
cinque-foils ; but there is nothing ‘in any 
part that indicates the perfon to whote 
memory it was put up. 
I now return to fay a few words in re- 
Jation to the manor; it continued in the 
Arfics, as we learn from Dugdale’s Baron- 
age, till the 2gth of Henry III. when Joane 
and Alice, co-heireffes of Robert de Arfic, 
alienated their intereft to Walter Gray, 
archbifhop of York. In 1327, Thomas 
Gardiner held lands here, paying his year- 
ly fervice, as has been already menticned, 
towards the ward of Dover Cattle, at 
which time John Gifford, of Crayford, in 
Kent, was regiftered in the inquifition as 
his heir. In the thirty-third of Henry VI. 
it appears to have paffed in dower with 
Alice Deincourt, to William Lord Lovel, 
whofe fon being attainted in the firft of 
Henry VII. this barony, among his other 
poffeffions, became forfeited to the crown, 
It was foon after given to Jafper Earl of ' 
Pembroke, who dying without iffue, we 
are at a lofs to account farther for the de- 
{cent of the barony. 
In the fourth of Elizabeth, 1562, Rich- 
ard Ruffye, gent. appears to have been 
poffeffed of confiderable property here ; as 
well as Sir Fraucis Wenman, in the 16th 
‘of Charles I. 
In the reign of James I. William Pope, 
Lord Downe, built a large manfion-houfe 
on the fite and ruins of the priory: his 
family lived here a confiderable time ; and 
his fecond fon Thomas was created earl, | 
Of this family was the celebrated poet, 
who tells us that, his ‘* father was of a 
-gentleman’s family, in Oxfordfhire, the 
head of which was the Earl of Downe.” — 
For other particulars of the family, asrefi- 
dent here, I fhall refer to Mr. Warton’s 
Life of Sir Thomas Pope.—Diftance from 
the place of which I am writing hinders 
me from tracing the property to a later 
period. 
Your's, &. T. B. 
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