The Morris Ring Archive
The Brill Page

It is convenient for many Archive users to be able to consult material which is grouped together in easily accessible form by tradition or geographical location. The Ring Archive has collated such information and the items relating to Brill, Buckinghamshire, are detailed below.

Itens marked with a [] are "Restricted to Archive" and are only available for consultation within the Archive, all others can be suplied in photocopy form.

A. Published Sources.

• Jackson's Oxford Journal, 21/5/1808, 3.
  Details of morris competition to be held during Whit week. Available in transcript only.
  
• Chandler, K., An Analytical Checklist of Morris Dance Musicians, Eynsham: Chandler Publications, (1985), 12, 26.
  Mention of Bunyan, the Brill musician, as part of Chandler's analysis of musicians.
  
• Chandler, K, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900. A Chronological Gazetteer, London: Hisarlik Press, (1993), 48.
  

B.  Unpublished Sources.

• Sharp, C.J., MSS "Folk Dances", 4,
  f119, Interview with Charles A Bunyan, Oxford, 16/3/1912.
  
• Sharp, C.J., MSS "Folk Tunes", 13,
  No 2750, Interview with Charles A Bunyan, Oxford, 16/3/1912.
  
  Available in original handwritten form and as a modern typescript copy.
  
• Dommett, R.L., MS Collection.
  
  Unpublished Morris Tunes.  A transcription of the Brill tunes from the Sharp MSS

Further information is available in the Stowe MSS. Copies are not presently available in the Archive.

A complete set of the above references can be supplied. Price on application.