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shambles for strange butchers to occupy
every market-day." See N. H. Nicolas's
- Testamenta Vetusta,' 1826, p. 426.
J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.
J. R. GREEN ON FREEMAN (10 th S. i. 225).- M.'s translation is only possible on the assumption that an inter has fallen out before quas, which I suspect to have been the case ; The division of the angels into nine choirs divided into three hierarchies is due to the Pseudo-Dionysius ('Hierarchia Ccelestis,' c. 6), who was followed, with minor variations, by St. Gregory the Great (Horn, in Ezek. xxxiv. 7) ; St. John Damascene (' De Fid. Orthod.,' ii 3); the majority of the schoolmen, e.g , Hugh of St. Victor (' De Sacr.,' i. 5), Peter Lombard ('Sent.,' L. ii. dist. 9 A), and St. Thomas Aquinas (' Sum- ma,' P. i. qu. 108, art. 6) ; and since the Photian Schism by the Orthodox Confession (P. i. qu. xx.) and the Confession of Metro- phanes Oritopulos (cap. ii.) in the East. In the last-cited author the angels collectively are called Swa//,s. It ii? probable that virtutes is used in this general sense in the passage under discussion. The difficulty, however, of interpreting it without inter- polating inter is that most writers do not rank any angels (except in some cases the Thrones) above the Cherubim and Seraphim. The commonly accepted order seems to be that of St. Thomas, viz , I. (1) Seraphim, (2) Cherubim, (3) Thrones ; II. (4) Domina- tions, i.e., Kupto-njTes, (5) Virtues, i.e., 8vva.fj.ei.?, (6) Powers, i.e., fgovcriai. ; III. (7) Principali- ties, i.e., dpxal, (8) Archangels, (9) Angels. This is the order given, for example, in the
- Manual of Catholic Theology ' by Wilhelm
v. Scannell, sec. 121 (3). On the other hand, the authors of ' A Catholic Dictionary ' (apparently following St. Gregory's order) transpose the Virtues and Principalities, and, speaking of the division of angels into choirs generally, observe that "the existence of these particular classes of angels is no article of faith." Seraphim, cherubim, archangels, and angels are often mentioned in the Scriptures ; the names of the other orders are taken from Ephes. i. 21 and Col. i. 16.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
COL. ROGER MACELLIGOTT (9 th S. xii. 328). Among the regiments ordered to be estab- lished in 1688 by King James was one for Col. Roger MacElligott, a very experienced officer of an ancient Munster race. "The MacElligott Regiment" formed part of the army brought over to England by James as a force on whose fidelity he could rely. The Earl of Clarendon in his ' Journal ' mentions
the fact that James went to Hampton Court
to inspect " MacGillicudd's regiment lately
come out of Ireland." In June, 1688, this
force returned to Ireland. In 1689 Col.
MacElligott was M.P. for Ardfert, in Kerry
in the National Parliament in Dublin ; and
the Comted'Avaux, Louis XIV. 's ambassador
to King James in Ireland, in a letter from
Dublin, immediately before the meeting of
that Parliament, wrote : " M. MacElligott,
Gouverneur de Kinsale, c'est un fort honeste
homme de mes amis, et qui me les fera tenir
fort ponctuellement" ; and in July, 1690,
Col. MacElligott was with his regiment at
the battle of the Boyne. Cork in 1690 was
so unfitted to endure a siege by the Earl
of Marl borough (theretofore the friend of King
James) and his force of 1,200 men, besides
ships of war, that Col. MacElligott and his
garrison of 4,500 men were compelled to
capitulate. Col. MacElligott was sent &
prisoner to the Tower of London ; but in
1697 he was exchanged, and permitted to
pass over to France. Meantime, he was not
forgotten by King James, who, on the re-
modelling of the Irish army on the Continent,
made him colonel of the " Regiment de Clan-
carty Infanterie." This regiment, after the
battle of La Hogue in 1692, was attached to
Marshal de Catinet's army in Italy ; and was
finally transferred to the Duke de Ventome's
army in Catalonia, with which it assisted
at the reduction of Barcelona in 1697.
The name of MacElligott, besides supply- ing a major-general and a baron to the military service of Austria under the Empress Maria Theresa, has been represented in the service of France, where, including a Mare- chal de Camp, it contributed several officers to the regiments of Berwick, Clare, Ros- common, &c. From the mention of a General MacElligott amongst the number of great military and civil officers of Irish birth or descent in the Austrian service who dined together in Vienna on St. Patrick's Day, 1778, it is probable that the brave Col. Roger MacElligott emigrated to and settled in the Imperial dominions.
In a letter in Sleator's 'Public Gazetteer' of 1760 it is related that Lieut. -General MacGuire commanded afe Dresden, &c., and " that it is to him and his near kinsman and countryman, the brave Major - General Baron MacElligott, who is indefatigably climbing to mili- tary glory, that their Imperial Majesties are indebted for forming the Croats, Pandours, and other irregular freebooters into as regular and well- disciplined troops as any others of their subjects."
The above is culled from ' King James's Irish Army List,' second edition, by John D'Alton (J. R. Smith, 1861), and ' History of
