NB information/comments in square brackets are Margaret Hunt's [Date on front in
original hand is No. 20, 1706-1713
Seems to be record of dues paid]


July 10,1706 Henry Hurst 0-2-0 : Robert Willis 0-2-0
January 15, 1706 Henry Hurst -2-4: Robert Willis -2-4
1706 Arrears - Robert Willis IIII

1707
Henry Hurst and John Gawyn Brown to Henry Hurst (-0-1-0 to Henry Hurst 1)
[I do not understand this, if he was an apprentice to Henry, he is not mentioned
in the SOG book]

July 9 1707 Henry Hurst 2-4: Robert Willis 2-4
Aug. 9, 1707 Robert Willis 0-01-0
Jan. 15, 1707 Henry Hurst 2-4
July 9, 1708 Robert Willis
Jan. 13, 1708/9 Robert Willis 2-4
1710 Robert Willis 2-0: [Henry Hurst's name appears again, but for the last time- Robert Willis continues on.]

Pattenmakers Company Court Minutes 1696-1761 MS5647 2
Apr. 5, 1710 (p. 164)
Concerns "persons selling material for pattens
finished or unfinished for sale" fined £5. (p.164)
"Diverse disorderly persons Members of this Company to the evill example
of all others notwithstanding they have had merit in them do promote and encourage
persons who have no right to this arts to the manifest prejudice of this
company". They are to pay fines and "not to be a free member of this
company and not a free member of any other company".
[No names are given of these persons.
There is no mention of Henry in my search through 1728.
Hurst not among persons mentioned as not paying dues July 1713.]

1707
The Names of the Order of Assistants of the Company of Pattenmakers for
the year 1707. No Hursts on list.

[Much checking seems to indicate that Henry probably just went on making pattens
since he was in Stepney, outside the control of the London guilds. By this time it
seems that was common. This is not definite proof he was one of the
bootleggers, but the timing is suggestive.

©Margaret Hunt/June Reed 2000