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This list is made from entries found on the website 'British History Online/Cogges Church', and also from the transcription made in 1974 by Brigadier Goadby taken from the Oxfordshire Family History Society fiche of Cogges Parish Registers.
The list is rather patchy in the earlier years.
Entries after 1974 have been inserted by Gill Curwood in 2005.

The early priests seem to have been chaplains appointed, after 1103, by the priors. Eton College later appointed chaplains, sometimes called perpetual vicars and perpetual curates.

“The living is a Perpetual Curacy and although the incumbent is known by courtesy as Vicar, curates are only licensed and not instituted. In this diocese licences are only recorded from the end of the 18th century. This list is complied from internal evidence in the Registers, and ignores Ministers who appear to be officiating temporarily.” F R L Goadby.

 Date  Incumbent  Notes
 About 1220  Henry, Chaplain of Cogges  
 Between 1220 and 1232  Benedict of St Edmund, Chaplain  
 1232 / 1233  Herbert de Findon  
 1526  Master John Ward or Clark  In his will dated 1545 he asked to be buried in Cogges Churchyard.
 1558  Andrew Partington  Also Vicar of Ast-hall.
 1658  John (or James) Parkinson  Also Curate of South Leigh by 1663.
 1666  Dr Francis Gregory  One of many informal incumbents. He was a school master at Witney.
 1685  Joseph Chetle  
 1687  Edward Crafts  
 1693  Robert Palmer  
 1723  John Holloway  
 1750  Thomas Morres  
 1754 / 1757  Charles Hall  John Hall 3 times in 1755.
 1757 / 1760  James Harris  
 1762 / 1810  George Seele  Signs up to 1783, recorded in Diocesan pp in 1792 – held Cogges in plurality with Hailey (1762) & North Leigh (1753). He was also a schoolmaster at Witney Grammar school.
   Charles Hoskins  Assistant to George Seele.
 1779 / 1808  William Collins  
 1810 / 1856  Thomas Andrews  Not resident in parish.
 1808 / 1833  Thomas Cripps  Thomas Andrews signs twice.
 1834 / 1836  Henry Gregory  Master at Witney Grammar School.
 1856 / 1862  James Bandinel  
 1862 / 1868  Aris Henry Nourse  Also Curate of Standlake.
 1868 / 1870  Alexander Stewart  
 1870  Charles Alleyene Anstey  
 1873  James Payne  Purchased advowson from Eton.
 1884 / 1914  Edward James Undy Payne  
 1914 / 1932  Robert William Hudgell  
 1932 / 1951  Edmund Ramsey Spence  
 1951  Frederick Hosier  
 1960 / 1977  Lawrence Howard Cole  
 1977 / 1984  Robin Alan Leaver  Priest-in-Charge.
 1984 / 1988  Ian Scott Holdsworth  Priest-in-Charge.
 1990 / 2001  Stephen Lyn Bessent  
 2002 / 2012  Andrew Sweeney  
     

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