Scogan belonged to a landowning Norfolk family; inn 1391 he succeeded his brother John as lord of Haviles.
[1] In 1399 Scogan was granted letters of protection to attend Richard II of England on his expedition to Ireland.
[1] In William Caxton's and later editions of Chaucer's Works there appears "moral ballad" composed by Scogan, for the sons of Henry IV.
[1] Among manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, there was a collection of metrical proverbs, headed Proverbium Scogani.
[2] The pairing of poet-characters "Scogan" and "Skelton" was worked up in 1600 by Richard Hathway and William Rankins.