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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Prisoner of War. — Can any of your readers 

 " learned in the law " give a legal definition, to- 

 gether with the authority for it, oftbe term " Pri- 

 soner of War." Captivus. 



The Deluge. — Stillingfleet and others have 

 given it as their opinion, that the Deluge did not 

 extend over the whole world, but only over the 

 inhabited portion. On what grounds ? Abhba. 



^fn0r eauerteS toitl) ^n^totr^. 



Quotation wanted : " Nulla Jides regni" etc. — Can 

 any of your correspondents oblige me by stating 

 in which of the ancient poets the following lines 

 occur ? — 



" Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas. . 

 Impatiens consortis erit, totum sitit ilia." 



T. H. 



[The passage will be found in Lucan, Pharsalia, lib. i. 

 92., except the last three words " totum sitit ilia," which 

 are not pure Latinity.] 



" Imago Primi SoBCuli Societatis Jesu." — Lately 

 when in Germany I met a gentleman who was in 

 possession of a work which he believes to be 

 unique, or nearly so. It is termed, — 



" Imago Primi Sseculi Societatis Jesu h ProvinciS, Flan- 

 dro-Belgica ejusdem Societatis, representata. Antwerp, 

 ex officinS, PlautinianaBalthasario Moreto anno Societatis 

 seculorum 1640." 



The same gentleman has also a German work pub- 

 lished at Stettin and Berlin in 1785, also giving an 

 account of the Jesuits, and quoting largely from 

 the earlier work, which it describes as having 

 been published by the Belgian Jesuits, and after- 

 wards recalled : and further, that at the period 

 of its own publication there were only four copies 

 of the Latin work known to exist. The gentlemen 

 who saw the book with me are desirous of know- 

 ing the history of the publication and subsequent 

 attempted suppression of this work, and also what 

 the object of the original publication may have 

 been. W. 



[The first work noticed by our correspondent, Imago 

 Primi Saculi Societatis Jesu, is to be found in the British 

 Museum and the Bodleian. The object of this work is to 

 give a history of the Order from its foundation, with an 

 account of its various missions. According to Ebert 

 {Bibtiog. Diet, vol. i. p. 814.) the work is by no means so 

 scarce as is sometimes stated, and has greatly fallen in 

 price since the more peaceful and equitable appearance of 

 things. He adds, "The hyperbolical eulogiums which 

 exist in this work are only "the innocent pedantry of the 

 Order, which is to be found equalh' strong in the history 

 of other orders." It is attributed to Joannes Tollenarius, 

 of the Society of Jesus, born at Bruges in 1582. He was 

 teaclier of the Classics, and for some time Professor of 

 Theology ; was twice Rector of the Professed House of 

 Antwerp, and subsequently Provincial of Flanders. He 

 died at Antwerp, April 1 1 , 1643. He was also author of 



Speculum Vanitatis ; sive Ecclesiastes soluta Ugataqne Ora- 

 tione dilucidatus, 4to. Ant., 1635.] 



The Word " Cheque;' or " Check." — Will you 

 oblige a poor student — a reader of your excellent 

 periodical — by informing me which is the most 

 correct or proper way of writing the word cheque 

 or check, a draft on a banker. The word is gene- 

 rally written with a q, but I find much difference 

 of opinion exists as to the etymology of the word. 

 I should also feel greatly obliged if you, or any 

 of your readers, could tell me which is considered 

 the most correct standard English dictionary at 

 the present day, such as could be consulted as an 

 authority. One giving the etymology of words 

 would be preferable, similar to Dr. Johnson's ; 

 but as I have only seen old editions of his, I am 

 not aware if any new or similar work (at a mo- 

 derate price) has been published or not : and the 

 old work does not contain many words in use at 

 the present day. T. H. 



[All the standard modern dictionaries spell the word 

 check, in preference to the now almost obsolete cheque. 

 We must leave our correepondent to choose either Dr. 

 Richardson's or Dr. Ogilvie's Dictionary, both exceedingly 

 useful to the philological student. In the former the 

 word explained, and its immediate derivatives, are classed 

 together, whilst the arrangement of the citations chrono- 

 logically, atford some view of the progressive changes of 

 language. In the latter work the etymologies of English 

 words are deduced from a compariso'n of words of corre- 

 sponding elements in the principal languages of Europe 

 and America, and contains many thousand words and 

 terms in modern use, not included in any former English 

 dictionary.] 



Erysipelas. — Why called St. Antony's Fire ? 



[A note in the life of St. Antony, in Alban Butler's 

 Lives (Jan. 17th), explains the origin of the name: — 

 " In 1089, a pestilential erysipelas distemper called the 

 Sacred Eire, swept off great numbers in most provinces of 

 France; public praj'ers and processions were ordered 

 against the scourge. At length it pleased God to grant 

 many miraculous cures of this dreadful distemper, to 

 those who implored his mercy through the intercession of 

 St. Antony, especially before his relics ; the church in 

 which theVwere deposited was resorted to by great num- 

 bers of pilgrims, and his patronage was implored over 

 the whole kingdom against this disease."] 



" The Rogue's March." — Can any correspon- 

 dent inform me where the above march can be 

 met with ? F. C. H. 



[The music of the "Rogue's March " is given in Chap- 

 pell's Collection of National Airs, tune 29, p. 15. Mr. 

 Chappell, in a note, says : " Why so graceful and pastoral 

 a melody as this should have been condemned to be the 

 Cantio in exitu of deserters and reprobates who are to be 

 drummed out of the regiments, is not easily to be ac- 

 counted for; but such is the case, and has been for cen- 

 turies. Many songs have been written to this air, among 

 others, one terminating in each verse with ' You mustn't 

 sham Abraham Newland.' "] 



