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but I feel Sure it was in some trustworthy work. The printed list of prices and purchasers' names at the Strawberry Hill sale is rather scarce, and I considered myself fortunate in picking up a copy some years ago at a very small cost. There was an interesting article on this collection in The Art Union for May, 1842.

W. ROBERTS.

" FUTURA PRJETERITIS " (10 S. iii. 227). At the above reference C. S. asked where this motto was to be found. It may be traced back to Isocrates, * Panegyricus,' 70, 141, Et Se Set Ta^eAAovra rots yeyevTy/jteyois TeK/xcu/>eo-#cu ( c f. ' Archidamus,' 59, 128,

rots rjSrj yycvr]fj.vois). The Latin transla- tion of the ' Panegyricus ' by Catanseus (Giovanni Maria Cattaneo) has " Quod si futura prseteritis colligere licet " (Rome, 1509, signature d iii recto, 11. 5, 6).

EDWARD BENSLY.

LADIES AND SIDE-SADDLES (10 S. xii. 247). If M. REINACH will look at A. Par- mentier's ' Album Historique : Le Moyen Age (du quatrieme a la fin du troisieme Siecle),' Paris, 1898-1900, he will find on p. 101 a representation of a seal which shows a figure of a lady sitting on a side-saddle, the right side being towards the horse's head. There is on p. 188 of the same volume what is, I think, a much more important illustration for the purpose : it is of a lady sitting on a side-saddle, and from the drapery it can be seen that the right leg is placed over what is no doubt a pommel. This picture is entitled ' Costume de Cheval, XIII 6 Siecle, restitue par Viollet- le-Duc fl'apres un manuscrit de la Biblio- theque Nationale.'

In the second volume of the same work, dealing with the fourteenth and fifteeenth centuries, there is on p. 6 an illustration which shows several ladies on horseback, the left arms towards the horses' heads. This is said to be " apres une miniature du manuscrit fran$ais No. 2643 de la Biblio- iheque Nationale." In the same volume, pp. 67 and 140, and in vol. iii. p. 52, are further illustrations of women riding side- ways, the last reference being to Queen Elizabeth riding on a side-saddled horse, with her right arm towards the horse's head.

M. REINACH will find in Birch and Jenner's ' Early Drawings and Illumina- tions,' 1879, classified references to numerous illustrations which may be found in illu- minated books. If he will look up the refer-

ences in that book which are given under ' Riders,' he will find at least three (and I think four) illustrations of women riding sideways, and in one case the MS. is of the eleventh century.

When Mr. Gurney printed the Le Strange Household Accounts in Archceologia, there was a valuable reference given to the pur- chase of a side-saddle. This will be found in Archceologia, vol. xxv. p. 464.

Has M. REINACH consulted Jules Pellier's " La Selle et le Costume de 1'Amazone : Etude historique et pratique de 1'Equitation des Dames. Orne de 100 vignettes," Paris, 1897 ? A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the eminent Emperor Charles IV., and sister of the un- fortunate King Wenceslas IV., queen to our Richard II., 1382-94, is said to have intro- duced the innovation into this country. To Queen Anne's tomb in Westminster Abbey the Bohemian colony in London have made periodical pilgrimages of late years. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE BISHOP OF ELY (10 S. xii. 249). Dr. Augustus Jessopp in ' D.N.B.,' xvii. 228, says :

" The letter so frequently quoted, professing to

be from Queen Elizabeth to Bishop Cox is a

stupid and impudent forgery, which first saw the light in the ' Annual Register ' of 1761. Yet, absurd as the fabrication is, few forgeries have succeeded so well in exercising a malignant influence upon the estimation in which the queen's character has been held by historians."

When Cox died in 1561, no successor was appointed to Ely for eighteen years.

A. R. BAYLEY.

BEE-STING CURE FOR RHEUMA.TISM (10 S. xii. 248). This "superstition" appears now to be accepted in medical practice. A long account of a remarkable cure appeared in The Bee-Keepers' Record (xxvi. 178) for December, 1908, copied from The Birmingham Daily Post for 11 November, 1908, which in turn appears to have taken it from The Midland Medical Journal.

The following appeared in The Morning Post a few days ago (either on Saturday, 18 September, or within a very few days of that date) :

" Surrey Bee-keepers' Show : Stinging for Rheu- matism. The use of formic acid as communicated by the stings of bees has long been known to the medical profession in connexion with obstinate cases of rheumatism. It is commonly believed that bee-keepers who handle their bees without protection are practically immune from this com-