104 The Conversion of Alary Hurll. 



that amount already in 1665, and Is. in 1666. In 1667 " Simon 

 Hiirle " received £1 from the Chamberlain of the borough " to bind 

 his son apprentice." In 1665 (17 Dec.) his daughter Susanna was 

 christened at St. Mary's, and her sister Sarah on August 16, 1667. 

 Mary was probably born about 166'3, but I have failed to find any 

 entry of her birth or baptism. 



In 1668 the Chamberlain " paid Simon Hurle's wife for to put 

 her son apprentice, £1 8s. Od" The burial of " the wife of Symon 

 Hurle" occurs under the date "Aprill 7, 1670." His own death 

 (as Mary assures us) happened a year later, but it does not appear to 

 have been recorded in either of the Marlborough registers. About 

 that date, however, I find that the Chamberlain paid £2 " for placing 

 2 of Simon Hurle's children," and in the same year (perhaps because 

 the little girl was so young that she would at first be like a child 

 boarded out, and of no profit as an apprentice) the comparatively 

 large sum of £5 10s. 0<^. was paid to " James Towers, for placing 

 another of Simon Hurle's children." Mr. Gwillim has kindly 

 referred to the original indentures, and he ascertains that James 

 Towers was an " husbandman," and that the orphan placed with 

 him was " Suzan " Hurle, then (in 1671) about 6 years old. She 

 had been christened "Susanna" in Dec, 1657. As to the elder 

 sister, Mary Hurle, with whom we are at present concerned, she 

 was apprenticed on 21st June, 1671, to one Walter Martyn, butcher, 

 to be instructed and employed " in the art or or science of Bone 

 lace maker,^ and also in housewifrye or domestrine - ymployment." 

 On the same day her sister " Joane Hurle, one of the daughters of 

 Simon Hurle, glover, deceased," was apprenticed to " John Miles 

 the younger, Husbandman," to be instructed " in the Art or Science 

 of Bone lace maker, and also in huswifery or domestryne ymploy- 

 ment." Under the Elizabethan bye-laws of 1577 (Waylen, p. 120) 

 the Mayor of Marlborough with the Council might take charge of 

 orphans and their property, and appoint their trustees. The mayor 

 in 1670 — 71 was William Grinfield ; and it was, I suppose, he who 



Bone-lace : pillow-lace, made with bobbins of bone or ivory. 

 * " Domestrine ": a blunder for " domestike." 



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