Records of the Oxford Company of Mercers and Woollen Drapers

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  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Top. Oxon. c. 360-7(R)
  • Dates of Creation
      1649-1786
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      8 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Rolls of accounts of the Oxford Company of Mercers and Woollen Drapers.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Oxford Company of Mercers and Woollen Drapers was amalgamated with the Grocers' Company between 1759 and 1769.

Access Information

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/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The rolls were given to the Library by the Oxford City Council in 1942.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

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).

Related Material

See also Records of Oxford Companies and Trade Guilds Collected by Frederick Joseph Morrell (MSS. Morrell 1-25)