institute, contains in the celebrated list the name of Tihel de Heiron. Another copy of the Roll of Battle Abbey, called "Leland's Copy," contains the name of Heroun. John Leland. the author, saw the original roll in the old abbey and transcribed the name therefrom himself. Holinshed's copy of the same roll contains the names of Heiron and Herne. Thus we have this surname occurring on three different copies of this roll. This is conclusive evidence that one of the founders of the Hearne family accompanied the Conqueror and took part, as a Norman baron, in the conquest of England. One of the name was also a standard bearer to the Conqueror. THE ROLL OF BATTLE ABBEY. The battle of Hastings was fought in Sussex County, about fifty-six miles from London, October 14 A. D 1066. In this battle 67,974 Englishmen were slain, besides those drowned, and 6,013 Normans. The scene of the conflict bears the name of Battel to this day. By means of this victory, a Norman duke was seated upon the throne of England, who was enabled thereby to hand its crown down to his descendants, the present English sovereign, Queen Victoria, resting her claim partly upon the Norman blood thus transmitted. The next year the Conqueror began to build a vast abbey on the part of the battle-field where the conflict had been the most bloody and severe, causing the high altar to be raised on the spot where the body of the opposing king, Harold, was found. The abbey he dedicated to St. Martin and endowed it with the most royal privileges. The existing ruins bear testimony to its ancient magnificence, being about a mile in circumference. An ancient chronicler, in writing of this abbey, says, in quaint old English: "He called it so then for a memorye of his batayle by which Englande he gate, In token of his mighty victorye, That Englande there he had so well overset, (To pray for the soules as was his det,) Which Abbeye is in Sussex, in that stede Where the batayle was and the people dede."

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