interiit."

Almost all cruel punishments have been used in the East, and it is not
improbable that execution by means of horses may be mentioned in some
oriental narrative.

L.

_The Conquest_ (Vol. ii., p. 440.).--In _Cambria Triumphans_, by Percy
Enderbie, at p. 283, will be found a copy of a deed, the conclusion of
which runs thus:--

"Sigilla nostra apposuimus in Castro nostro de Burgavenny vicessimo
secundo die Julii, anno regni Regis Henrici sexti, post _Conquestum_
vicessimo septimo."

The word is here used for the accession of the King.

S. K.

_Mayors--their correct Prefix_ (Vol. i., p. 380.).--Since propounding my
Query in Vol. i., p. 380., relative to this subject, I have to inform your
readers, that I have been favoured with the opinion of gentlemen very high
in official authority on all points connected with heraldry and the rules
of precedence; which is, that the proper style of the mayor of a borough is
"the worshipful;" and they are further of opinion, that there can be no
ground for styling the mayor of a city "the right worshipful."

J.

_True Blue_ (Vol. iii., p. 27.).--On the origin of this expression, I must
claim the right to dissent from your correspondent G. F. G., who appears to
have fallen into the error of confining a form of very wide application to
one particular case, in which he discovers a trifling coincidence of fact.
The connexion of the colour blue with truth is of very ancient date, of
which the following may for the present suffice as an example:--

"And by hire beddes hed she made a mew
And covered it with velouettes blew,
In signe of trouth, that is in woman sene."
Chaucer, _Squiere's Tale_.

Blue, in the early practice of the tinctorial art, appears to have been the
most humble of the colours in use, and the least affected by any external
influence; and, down to the present day, if certain tints of recent
invention be excepted, the same character may be claimed for it. What then
more natural, than that it should be taken as the type of immutability, or
that every party, political or religious, should in turn assume it as the
badge of honesty of purpose, and of firm adherence to their principles?

F. S. Q.

_Modum Promissionis_ (Vol. ii., pp. 279, 347, 468.).--This phrase is
perhaps connected with the promissivus modus, _i.e._ tempus promissivum or
futurum of Diomedes and other mediaeval grammarians.

T. J.

_Fronte capillata,