Hurle, Henry

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According to the plaque outside the Kings Arms 23 Poland St  Henry Hurle founded the Ancient Order of Druids there on 29.11.1781. I don't know of any contemporary record of this, it probably rests on a statement in a Druid magazine some years later but perhaps within living memory of the event. (see Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe p133). The publican would probably have been Alexander Warren who had married on 15.9.1781 Elizabeth, widow of the previous publican William Arthur who died in 1779. / Henry Hurle of St Luke = St Martin i t F 27.1.1769 Ann Cross by Archbishop's lic / Henry Hurle of Garlick Hill free of Carpenters Company by redemption 1770, took apprentices 1770, 1772,1774, two in 1787 incl his son William  Sun Fire 1779, 1781, 1787, 1789, 1791 carpenter of Hurles Yard, Garlick Hill, Bow Lane 1793 surveyor of 3 John St, Penton St, Islington. Will London Consistory Court of William Cross dated 29.10.1794 made Henry Hurle senior of Pentonville his executor, Cross was buried 6.11.1794 / Hurle was a witness (along with Mary Jane Clarke) 14.12.1794 at wedding of Cross's dau Margaret to Thomas Pool at St James Clerkenwell / Hurle's son Henry gent of New Inn made free of Carpenters Company by patrimony 1794 / Hurle's will proved PCC 7.11.1795 surveyor of St James Garlickhythe mentioned his sons Henry (bapt 1771), William (bapt 1773), Thomas (bapt 1777), John (bapt 1780) and Robert (bapt 1787) and his daughter Anna (bapt 1778) / Hurle's son Thomas, mason of Bishopsgate St was made free of Carpenters Company 1797