Frederick Joseph Morrell

A collection of the records of Oxford companies and trade guilds of the mercers, grocers, cordwainers, tailors, butchers, and poulterers, collected by Frederick Joseph Morrell. The collection includes records of:

• the Company of Cordwainers, including ordinances, royal charters, minutes, and accounts, 1260-1846
• the Company of Tailors, including election and order books, ordinances and minute books, 1570-1845
• the Company of Mercers and Grocers, consisting of an account book of the company in Oxford, 1789-1852
• the Company of Butchers and Poulterers, consisting of the rules and ordinances of the Company in Oxford, 1703, with lists of members and officers, 1707-18, and a few miscellaneous papers and receipts, 1702-3

The collection was given to the Library in 1925 in memory of Frederick Joseph Morrell.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city county and university of Oxford. Accessions from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).

See also Records of the Oxford Company of Mercers and Woollen Drapers (MSS. Top. Oxon. c. 360-7(R))

Guilds | England | Oxford

Morrell | Frederick Joseph

Company of Butchers and Poulterers | Oxford

Company of Cordwainers | Oxford

Company of Mercers, Grocers and Woollen Drapers | Oxford

Company of Tailors | Oxford

Oxford (England)