and he, recovering, was carried prisoner to York, where he was beheaded as a traitor.

It remained in the crown to the 10th of Elizabeth, when that queen appointed Sir John Forster, of Bamborough Abbey, Governor of it; his grandson, John Forster, Esq., afterward had a grant of it and the manor, whose descendant, Thomas Forster, of Ethelstone, engaging in the rebellion anno 1715, his estates were confiscated, and by him bequeathed in trust for charitable uses. By one Archdeacon of Durham the keep of this castle has been made habitable, and the whole appropriated to the pious design of the founder, tinder regulations which at once do honor to his head and heart.

Among the variety of the distressed who find relief from this charity are the mariners navigating this dangerous coast, for whose benefit a constant watch is kept on the top of the tower.

The shipwrecked mariner finds an hospitable reception in this castle. Here are the storehouses for depositing the goods which may be saved; instruments for raising and weighing the sunken and stranded vessels; and, to complete the whole, at the expense of this fund the last offices are decently performed to the bodies of such drowned sailors as are cast on shore.

Thus this ancient palace has become as remarkable for deeds of charity as it was formerly for acts of valor and bloodshed.

From Encyclopedia Britannica with American Revisions and Additions:

"HEARNE, Samuel (1745-1792), an English explorer, was born at London in 1745. At the age of eleven he entered the Royal Navy as midshipman in the vessel of Lord Hood, but at the conclusion of the war he took service with the Hudson’s Bay Company as quartermaster. In 1768 he was appointed to examine portions of the coast of Hudson’s Bay with a view to the improvement of the codfishing, when he executed his task with such ability that it was resolved to employ him in the discovery of the northwest passage, and of certain mines of copper whose existence was asserted by the Indians. His first attempt. upon which he set out on November 6, 1769, was unsuccessful, owing to the desertion of the Indians; and his second, entered upon on 23d February, 1770, was, by the breaking of his quadrant. likewise rendered abortive; but in his third expedition, upon which he started in December, 1770, he was completely successful, as he not only discovered the existence of copper

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