1841  George Morse of Yorkley, Free Miner, did after 9 April 1832 apply for a gale of coal called Morseís Level Colliery.  Application not granted but work commenced.
Coal in the Yorkley or Bailey Delf vein.

F3 286
1846  G. M. Morse.  Output 28 tons.

BT31 999/1547  BLAKENEY & FOREST OF DEAN COAL CO. LTD.
To work Nags Head, Morses Level and Cockshoot Level Collieries.
Capital £6,000 in 48 £125 shares.
Subscribers:
John Knowles Pendlebury, Lancs Colliery proprietor 8 shares
Andrew Knowles            ì               ì        ì               ì 8      ì
Robert Knowles            ì               ì Coal                ì 8      ì
Henry Bristow Brixton Geological surveyor 6      ì
Ewing Pye de Colquhan             London  6      ì
Simeon Holmes Blakeney  9      ì
Edward Hull Manchester  3      ì

Registered office: Howbeach

7 April 1866  Extra £2,000

30 November 1869  Wound up voluntarily

GRO D2598 6/2
16 July 1880  Samuel Jenkins of Mill Hill, Bream, registered owner.

9 August 1881  Indenture between Samuel Jenkins and Gollop & Co. Ltd.  Jenkins agrees to let to Gollop & Co. the wayleave to bring out all their coal of Morses Level at one penny per ton.

F3 708  MORSEíS LEVEL No. 2 COLLIERY
15 October 1898  Application for re-grant James William, Barn Hill.  To be worked by a level to the Yorkley vein.

3 November 1898  A W. H. Jones of Nibly nr. Blakeney had arranged to purchase

21 November 1898  Granted.

6 October 1909  No work.  Possible sale of gale.  W. Langley-Smith, a solicitor of Gloucester, the galee

29 September 1915  Conveyance William Langley-Smith to Robert Holt Edmundson

19 January 1923  Howbeach Collieries Co. Ltd.

F3 709
10 November 1932  Gale not worked for five years.  Galees Messrs. The Howbeach Collieries Ltd., Chapel Hill Aylburton.  Percy Moore.

Trotter:  Morseís Level trends southwards in the Yorkley for 900 yards then crosses the measures south-east to cut Coleford High Delf.