This name is found several times in the Norman Exchequer Rolls of 1180-95; and subsequently appears enrolled among the nobility as Sires de Bretteville. Two Harels, both belonging to the bailiwick of Falaise, took their place in the Church of St. Stephen at Caen in 1789, as members of the Ordre de la Noblesse of Normandy. I found this name, in the first instance, in the chartulary of Vale Royal, Cheshire, where Alexander Hard occurs, temp. Hen. III., as a witness, and the mesne Lord of Bruggestreet, in that county. (Mon. Angl.) William Hurel, in 1166, held land of Havering-Bower, by the serjeancy of keeping the park. - Moran’s Essex. Either he, or another William Hurel, occurs in Berkshire 1189-90 (Rot Pip.) John, and Richard Haurel, circa 1272 (Rot. Hundred.) Reginald Hurel represented Canterbury in the Parliament held at Westminster 23 Ed. I. (Hasted’s Kent): and Adam Hurel, with Gerarda his wife, are found there in the ensuing reign (Kent Fines, 13 Ed. II.). Roger Hurel witnesses the Archbishop of York’s charter to Marrick Priory, Yorkshire, in the time of Henry II. v. Marrick Chartulary.