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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire is in Oxfordshire.
Around 1203 Richard Harcourt was born to William Harcourt (age 28) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1204 Robert de Harcourt (age 52) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1227 William Harcourt was born to Richard Harcourt (age 24) and Arabella Quincy (age 41) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 9th December 1256 Richard Harcourt was born to William Harcourt (age 29) and Hilaria or Eleanor Hastings (age 23) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1258 Arabella Quincy (age 72) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 1st November 1275 John Harcourt was born to Richard Harcourt (age 18) and Margaret Beke (age 19) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 19th April 1278 William Harcourt (age 51) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Before 1st March 1293 Richard Harcourt (age 36) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1300 Eleanor Zouche (age 27) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In 1300 William Harcourt was born to John Harcourt (age 24) and Eleanor Zouche (age 27) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Around 1303 Margaret Beke (age 47) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 2nd May 1330 John Harcourt (age 54) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 6th June 1349 William Harcourt (age 49) died of plague at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 20th September 1410 Robert Harcourt was born to Thomas Harcourt (age 33) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 1st February 1416 Richard Harcourt was born to Thomas Harcourt (age 39) and Joan Francis (age 33) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 6th July 1420 Thomas Harcourt (age 43) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1440 John Harcourt was born to Robert Harcourt (age 29) and Margaret Byron (age 28) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1443 Robert Harcourt was born to Robert Harcourt (age 32) and Margaret Byron (age 31) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1444 Christopher Harcourt was born to Richard Harcourt (age 27) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Around 1445 Thomas Harcourt was born to Robert Harcourt (age 34) and Margaret Byron (age 33) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1447 George Harcourt was born to Robert Harcourt (age 36) and Margaret Byron (age 35) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1470 Letitia Harcourt was born to John Harcourt (age 30) and Anne Norreys (age 20) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 14th November 1470 Robert Harcourt (age 60) was killed by an adherent of the Staffords with whom he had a long running feud for Robert having murdered Robert Stafford in 1448 at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In 1474 Christopher Harcourt (age 30) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 25th May 1486 Margaret Byron (age 74) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map]. She was buried at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1500 Simon Harcourt was born to Simon Harcourt (age 28) in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1517 Simon Harcourt was born to Simon Harcourt (age 17) at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 16th January 1546 Simon Harcourt (age 74) died in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around 1553 Walter Harcourt was born to Simon Harcourt (age 36) and Mary Aston (age 23) in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 19th February 1566 Simon Harcourt (age 66) died in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 25th July 1577 Simon Harcourt (age 60) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In 1603 Simon Harcourt was born to Robert Harcourt (age 29) in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In 2nd February 1608 Robert Harcourt (age 34) died in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In 1616 George Cornwall (age 70) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Around 1639 Walter Harcourt (age 86) died in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
In December 1661 Simon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt was born to Philip Harcourt (age 24) in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 20th March 1688 Philip Harcourt (age 51) died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Around January 1699 Elizabeth Evelyn died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
1792. Joseph Farington (age 44). Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Time Team Series 3 Episode 2: Hunting for Mammoth was filmed between 21st April 1995 and 23rd April 1995. It was originally shown on 14th January 1996.
Location: Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Alice Noel died at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, South-Central England, British Isles [Map]
Devil's Quoits is also in Cotswolds Stone Circles.
Devil's Quoits [Map]. The henge ditch enclosed a circular area up to 120 metres across, with opposed entrances facing almost due east and west. The northern half of the henge appears to have had a second enclosing ditch circuit. Within the henge was a stone circle and a central stone setting which may have been put up after the henge had been in use for some time, in the Early Bronze Age. The Devil's Quoits were restored between 2002 and 2008, with the original quoits A, B, and C re-erected along with other conglomerate stones found at the site. Twenty new replacement stones were placed in the original holes for a total of 28 stones, and the surrounding earthworks re-built.
Folklore 13 1902 Pages 288-295. The Devil's Quoits [Map] at Stanton Harcourt are three large standing stones, which are all that remain of what was probably a circle considerably larger than that at Avebury, and which doubtless gave their name to the neighbouring village (Stanton = A.S. Stántún, the stone enclosure).1 Beacon Hill is a very conspicuous landmark, just above Eynsham Bridge, on the Berkshire side of the Thames, about two and a half miles in a straight line from the "Quoits." It is very steeply scarped on three sides, and it has been suggested that it was the British fortress of Egonesham, captured by the Saxons under Cuthwulf in 571."2
The devil was playing quoits on Beacon Hill on a Sunday, and in a rage at being told it was wrong, he threw these three to where they are now.
One of the quoits standing in Walker's Field was once taken away, and put over a ditch called the "Back Ditch" in the "Farm Close" to make a bridge ; but it was always slipping, and although often put back, it would not rest, and they were obliged at last to take it back to where it now stands. Wheel marks can still be seen on it. — (From Chas. Batts, labourer, of Stanton Harcourt, aged 35, who had it from his father. January i, 1898.)
Mr. Akerman,3 in 1858, records a rationalised version of the same story, as follows : "There is a tradition in the neighbourhood that the northernmost stone was once removed by an occupier of the land, and laid across a watercourse, where it served as a bridge over which waggons and carts for some time passed, and that it was restored to its old locality at the request of one of the Harcourt family. A groove in this stone, eight inches from the top, seven inches in width, and about three inches deep, is believed to have been caused by the wheels of the vehicles when it lay prostrate."
Joseph Goodlake of Stanton Harcourt (now of Yarnton), aged 63, in March, 1901, gave me the following particulars which he had from his father: "When the war was in England, the fighting ended at Stanton by those stones, and from there across to Stanlake Dovvn by Cut Mill. Harcourt was the general; he was Emperor in England; he is buried in the church with his sword and gun and clothes." Further : "When the war was in England the officers used to hide behind them" (the Devil's Quoits) "from the bullets," and the men used to pick the bullets out of them when my informant was young.
The legend connecting the Quoits with a battle is confirmed by a story told by Tom Hughes:4 "An old man in that village" (Stanton Harcourt) "told me that a battle was fought there, which the English were very near losing, when the general rode up to one of his captains, named Harcourt, who was in the thick of it, and called out, 'Stan' to un, Harcourt, stan' to un, Harcourt,' and that Harcourt won the battle, and the village has been called Stanton Harcourt ever since."
Note 1. J. Y. Akerman, "Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood," Archaeologia, xxxvii., 430 ; A. J. Evans, "Rollright Stones and their Folklore," Folk-Lore, vi., 10.
Note 2. J. Parker, Early History of Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc), p. 81.
Note 3. Akerman, I.c. p. 431.
Note 4. T. Hughes, Scouring of the White Horse (1859), p. 32. There are several monuments to the Harcourt family in the church, the most conspicuous of which are two altar tombs with effigies in full armour ; one to Sir Robert Harcourt, K.G., and his wife Margaret, 1471, the other to his grandson, Sir Robert, who was Henry VH.'s standard-bearer at Bosworth, and died some time after 1501. One of these two is apparently assigned to "the general."
The story of the fighting may well have arisen from the numerous discoveries of British and Anglo-Saxon remains that have been made in the neighbourhood. A tumulus close to the "Quoits" was destroyed by the grandfather of the present farmer, and on Stanlake Down many Anglo-Saxon burials have been found.
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St Michael's Church, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, South-Central England, British Isles
Monumental Effigies. Sir Robert Harcourt KG (died 1471) and Margaret (Byron) (age 59) his wife in Stanton Harcourt Church, Oxfordshire.
Robert Harcourt: On 20th September 1410 he was born to Thomas Harcourt at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map]. Before 1440 Robert Harcourt and Margaret Byron were married. On 14th November 1470 Robert Harcourt was killed by an adherent of the Staffords with whom he had a long running feud for Robert having murdered Robert Stafford in 1448 at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].