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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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ning of this, published a great many novels, some 
under the name of Gabrielle, which had for a time 
some success? Was Meéke also an assumed 
name ? us eae 
Sir J. Smith of Grothill and King’s Cramond, 
was Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the middle of 
the seventeenth century. Can any of your readers 
tell me what family he left? Was he connected 
with the family of Smith of Inverramsay, Aber- 
deenshire ; a descendant of which, Patrick Smith, 
took such an active part in the Rebellions of 1715 
and 1745, that he was excluded from the Act of 
Grace passed in 1746? Where can I find an ac- 
count of the latter family ? Stema THETA. 
Dalwick, or Dawyk, Peebleshire.— Any one who 
can give any information respecting the Rev. 
Robert Smith, who was minister there during the 
Rebellion of 1715, is earnestly requested to do so. 
He is believed to have come from Perthshire. 
Siema THETA. 
Latitude and Longitude.— What is the origin 
and derivation of these terms? And what is the 
earliest instance of their use ? { R. H. W. 
Pinar Queries with Answers. 
Pompey’s Statue. — Flaminio Vacea, in his Me- 
morie di Varie Antichita trovate in diversi Luoghi 
dellu Citta di Roma, 1594, says : 
“ Near the Palazzo d’ Cancellaria, in the time of Pope 
Julius IIL, there was found, on excavating the ground 
beneath a cellar, a statue of Pompey, fifteen palms high. 
Immediately above the cellar stood a party-wall, sepa- 
rating two houses; on the discovery being made known, 
the proprietors of both houses claimed the statue. Not 
being able to settle the dispute among themselves, they 
had recourse to the law; the one pleading that the largest 
part, z.e, the body, being under his house, he had the best 
right to the whole; and the other maintaining that the 
body was of no value without the head, which was under 
his house, and therefore he ought to have the whole. 
The judge decided that the head should be cut off, and 
each claimant receive his own portion. Alas, poor Pom- 
pey! it was not enough for thee to lose thine own head, 
but even thy marble effigy was doomed to undergo the 
same fate! Luckily, Cardinal Capodiferro heard of this 
sentence, and before it cou!d be carried into execution, 
reported the whole story to the Pope. His Holiness sent 
five hundred scudi to be divided between the disputants, 
and gave the statue, still unmutilated, to the Cardinal.” 
Could any of your correspondents inform me 
where the self-same statue can be seen ? 
INQUISITIVE. 
[Eustace’s Classical Tour through Italy, vol. i. p. 271., 
edit. 1814, contains the following account of this statue: 
“Tn an antechamber of the Palazzo Spada, stands the 
celebrated statue of Pompey, at the foot of which Cesar 
is supposed to have fallen. It was first placed, during 
Pompey’s life, in the senate-house which he had erected; 
and when that edifice was shut up, it was raised by order 
of Augustus on a double arch or gateway of marble, op- 
posite the grand entrance of Pompey’s theatre. It was 
thrown down during the convulsion of the Gothic wars, 
and for many ages it lay buried in the ruins. Cardinal 
de Spada, by a timely purchase (as stated above), pre- 
vented the destruction of this interesting remnant of 
Roman antiquity. Another danger awaited Pompey’s 
statue at a much later period, and from an unexpected 
quarter. While the French occupied Rome in 1798-9, 
they erected in the centre of the Coliseum a temporary 
theatre, where they acted various Republican pieces for 
the amusement of the army. Voltaire’s Brutus was a 
favourite tragedy; and in order to give it more effect, it 
was resolved to transport the very statue of Pompey to 
the Coliseum, and to erect it on the stage. The colossal 
size of the statue, and its extended arm, rendered it diffi- 
cult to displace it. The arm was therefore sawed off for 
the conveyance, and put on again at the Coliseum; and 
on the second removal of the statue it was again taken 
off, and again replaced at the Palazzo di Spada. So 
friendly to Pompey was the republican enthusiasm of the 
French! So favourable to the arts and antiquities of 
Rome is their love of liberty!” A modern writer, how- 
ever, has remarked, that “the scepticism of antiquaries 
has led to abundant controversy on its authenticity ; but 
after having been called Augustus, Alexander the Great, 
and an unknown emperor, by successive critics, the an- 
cient faith has been triumphant, and it is likely to pre- 
serve the title of the Spada Pompey long after its critics 
have been forgotten.” See also Sir John Hobhouse’s note 
to a passage of Childe Harold, quoted in Murray’s Hand- 
book for Central Italy, p. 452.] 
Old Bible.—I am encouraged by the prompt 
and satisfactory answer given to a like inquiry, in 
2-1 §. i. 96., to ask for information respecting an 
8vo. Latin Bible in my possession. The title is 
wanting. It is printed in Roman letters, and in 
double columns. *2. “Index testimoniorum 4 
Christo et Apostolis in Novo Testamento citato- 
rum ex veteri,” 6 pages. *5. “ Hieronymi Pro- 
logus Galeatus,” 1 page and 1 col. “ Epistola B. 
Hieronymi ad Paulinum,” 1 col. and 5 pages. 
“Prefatio Sti. Hieronymi in Pentateuchum,” 
l page. ‘ Liber Genesis Hebraice Beresith,” and 
a woodcut of the creation, The paging begins 
here, and is continuous to p. 1176.; at the bottom 
of which is “ Novi Testamenti Finis.” Then 
follow ‘‘Hebraicorum, Chaldezorum, Grecorum- 
que nominum interpretatio,” 6} pages. “ Index 
Rerum et Sententiarum,” 54 pages. ‘ Index 
Epistolarum et Evangeliorum,” 10 pages ; the last 
concluding with the word “ finis,” but without any 
date or printer’s name. The woodcuts, many of 
which are well designed and executed, in the Old 
Testament generally fill up one third of the page; 
though there are some larger ones, as of the ark, 
the tabernacle and its ornaments, and the temple 
of Solomon. In the New Testament, they are 
smaller, and do not extend beyond the limits of 
the column. The Old Testament ends on p. 942. 
The Prologues of St. Jerome are prefixed to the 
several books. There is an autograph of a former 
owner on the first leaf, with the date of 1548. 
PxiLositos. 
[We cannot discover the exact date of this Bible, but 
its contents agree with the first edition of the Latin Vul- 
