Eustace III rebelled against the King, William II, were defeated at Rochester and forced into exile. The manor in 1211 was held by Geoffrey de Fercles for three knight's fees of the Honour of Boulogne. The assessed value of the lands was 20s 9d By 1300 the manor was owned by Philip de Thundersley. Andrew de Thunderley (died 1311) held of the king 120 acres of arable and 140 acres of wood. The Manor was then valued at 17s 2d, a race of ginger and a stalk of clove gillyflower. The Manor was then inherited by Anfrid de Staunton in 1312 until 1337 and his son Humphrey, then sister Margaret who married Sir John Coggeshall, MP for Essex (UK Parliament constituency) six times between 1334 and 1358, of Codham Hall and Coggeshall, Essex. Indications of Medieval life and 87 pottery shards from the thirteenth to seventeenth century were also found in 1994 and 2001 during field-walking and test trenches in three hectares of land surveyed, at Church Farm north-west of the medieval church by the Essex Archaeological Trust. Agriculture and fishing remained the main form of employment. During Edward I's reign a disagreement about fishing rights led to a fight with men from neighbouring villages and three men drowned. In 1279, the Manor of Cockaynes was held by Sir John de Sutton of Wivenhoe valued at 19s. The oldest existent building in Alresford is Brook Farm house dating from the late 15th or 16th century, about three-quarters of a mile East-North-East of the church, on the modern Thorrington Road. During the Tudor era, a number of wills detailed charity for the poor. A yearly rent-charge of 12s. 8d. on the Milch Pightle field (of the Heath Farm) was left in 1508 by Edmund Porter for the relief of the poor. In 1588, Edmund Porter left Knapps and lands of 31 acres to John Porter and his heirs. In return, Porter was expected to give the poor every Sunday from Whitsun to Michaelmas the milk of two cows; 3s/4d on Good Friday and Christmas Day. This milk tribute was later commuted into a distribution of bread. In 1571, yeoman Richard Boller refers to his almshouse at Alresford. Alresford Lodge, once the manor of Cockaynes, was held by Mrs Kinnaston of London in 1764. The current Edwardian mansion was built in 1910/11. From at least 1914, until his death in 1932, Alresford