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this brochure, the idea recurs in metrical form in the second part of * Penkethman's Jests ; or, Wit Refin'd,' 1721 :

AN EPITAPH. Ned H [yde?], who was the

best belov'd of his Family, dying at a Time when they were out of Favour, a witty Fellow provided him with the following Epitaph

Here lies Ned H, because he died ;

Had it been his Father we had much rather :

Or had it been his Sister we should never have

mis't her : Or had it been the whole Generation that had

been better for the Nation : But since 'tis honest Ned there 's no more to be

said.

I fancy the above information has already appeared in * N. & Q.,' but I cannot just now give the reference.

Thus, then, in the first year of Prince Frederick's life, a squalid hero, suffering the deserved and ignominious penalty of his crimes, supplied a subject for doggerel issued when H.R.H. was some seven or eight years of age ; and thirty years afterwards, on the death of the prince, substituting "our" for Prince "Fred" and "only Fred" for "Ned

H " (qy. Hyde?) and "honest Ned" (a

gentleman who appears to have been not altogether an unpopular character), the lines are revived, slightly very slightly para-

Ehrased, to fit the reputation left behind im by the illustrious deceased, and destined to achieve a wider notoriety. Can we carry the inquiry further 1 I think not. It would not be to the point to comment upon the varying verbiage adopted by the numerous writers who have cited the lines the origin of which MR. HEBB and I have endeavoured to trace. GNOMON.

Temple.

A CORK LEG (9 th S. viii. 204). After an experience of something over thirty years as house visitor in one of the largest of our provincial hospitals, I may say no such definition as "a cork leg" has been known in the surgical profession during the whole of that time. The expression, now practically obsolete, no doubt ori- ginated in the fact that artificial limbs were formerly made of steel or other metal uprights, shaped up by layers of cork ; but for the last fifty years at least these substitutes for nature have always been con- structed of wood willow by preference, because of its lightness and stability covered with leather. Cork is never used. The working joints are, of course, of finely tem- pered steel. There are (I understand from one of the oldest and best -known manu- facturers of these appliances) certain kinds

of legs known specially in the trade by the names of inventors or distinguished wearers. The term "a cork leg" is, however, only used to-day (if used at all) by rank outsiders.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

WHARTON (OR WARTON) FAMILY OF BEVER- LEY (9 th S. viii. 204). Your correspondent will find a pedigree of the ancient family of Warton of Beverley Parks in 'Scaum's Beverlac,' edited by George Poulson and published in 1829, a large 8vo of some 800 pages. The family became extinct in 1770 in the direct line by the death of Sir Warton Pennyman Warton, the fifth baronet. The estates then descended to the Pennymans, and subsequently to the Worsleys, who took the name of Pennyman, and a pedigree of the family may be found in Burke's * Landed Gentry' (1871) as Pennyman of Ormesby Hall, co. York. The arms of Warton are given in * Beverlac ' as Or, a chevron azure, charged with a martlet, between two pheons of the first.

At the back of the altar in Beverley Minster, in the Lady Chapel, called in former years the " sanctum sanctorum," are several monuments of the Warton family, the rich groining having been cut away to admit them, and in the pavement are memorials of the same family. A fc finer architectural study than Beverley Minster cannot be found in England. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION (9 th S. vi. 368, 458 ; vii. 16, 133, 252). I have asserted in of Cork was the first steamship to carry passengers from Europe to America. This statement was disputed in 9 th S. vii. 133, when it was stated that " in no sense could she [the Sirius] be called a real passenger steamer." Now, through the kindness of an unknown friend in New York, I have recently been favoured with a copy of the Weekly Herald of New York for 28 April, 1838. From this source I learn that forty -two passengers were on board, of whom eleven were females, for whose accommodation a stewardess was carried. This corroborates my statement, and cannot leave a doubt that the Sirius was a passenger steamer.
 * N. & Q.' from time to time that the Sirius

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"BOLTEN" (9 th S. viii. 186). The 'E.D.D.' gives " Bolt=iQ truss straw." Under ' Bolt,' sb. 2, one finds that the weight of the truss is from twelve to fourteen pounds. " Bolten "