The Freemen of the City of Oxford , Howard Crapper ( head Freeman) and Mayor Susanna Pressel

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an ancient civic body is to admitted women as members for the first time in its 1,000-year history. The Freemen of the City of Oxford are thought to have formed in Saxon times and were recorded in the Domesday Book. Helen Butterfield receiving her certificate from Oxford Mayor Susanna Pressel ad Howard Crapper head of the Freemen

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Keywords: ancient, ceremony, city, english, freeman, freemen, oxford, tradition, woman