Livy adds, that this was the first and last example of so savage a punishment among the Romans. The punishment, however, must have been well-known in antiquity, as it is alluded to by Seneca among the tortures which accompanied death. "Cogita hoc loco carcerem, et cruces, et equleos, et uncum; et adactum per medium hominem, qui per os emergat, stipitem; _et distracta in diversum actis curribus membra_."--Epist. xiv. 4. Grimm (_Deutsche Rechtsalterthuemer_, p. 692.) quotes the following instance of this punishment from Gregory of Tours, _Hist. France_, iii. 7.: "Puellas crudelinece interfecerunt ita ut ligatis brachiis super equorum cervicibus, ipsique acerrimo moti stimulo per diversa petentes diversas in partes feminas diviserunt" He adds that it occurs frequently in the legends of the Carolingian period. Thus Turpin, c. 26., describes as follows the punishment of the traitor Gannalon:-- "Jussit illum Carolus quatuor equis ferocissimis totius exercitus alligari, et super eos quatuor sessores agitantes contra quatuor plagas coeli, et sic digna morte discerptus 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_.