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EARLY CHRISTIAN GILT GLASS. In 185( a medallion of glass, having the portrait: of a Roman lady and a little boy " etched ' in gold on a dark-blue ground, was exhibitet before the Archaeological Institute ; later it was described in the Journal, vol. vi p. 171. It then belonged to Mr. C. Went worth Dilke. I should be glad to know i this medallion still exists, and, if so, where Another early Christian " gilt glass " wa: said to belong to Dr. Bliss of Oxford.

W. R. L.

APPLEBY OF APPLEBY MAGNA. I have the descent of this family from circa 1200 to a break at the eighteenth generation where. ( 1 ) Francis Appleby m. a dau. oJ Parker of Sibbeston, and d. s.p. 1630; (2 Neville Appleby, d.y. ; (1) Barbara Appleby, co-h., m. Peter Burgoyne, and d. 1633; and <2) Mary Appleby, co-h., bapt. 1589, m. Edward Heyward, who d. 1625.

The line then seems to reappear (pro- bably through an earlier collateral) in the parishes of Egmanton and East Retford (co. Notts), in which latter I have a Thomas Appleby (whose son John, b. 1654, m.) ? his cousin Ffrances Appleby, b. 1655 and many others. The descent seems fairly clear after this date, but I shall be most grateful for information tending to bridge the apparent gap. G. E.

LAMB'S CHAPEL, LONDON. In 1699 Richard Glassenton obtained a licence from the Faculty Office to marry Elizabeth Topsell at Lamb's Chapel, London. Can any one tell me where Lamb's Chapel was, what became of it, and where its marriage registers may be seen ? C. H. G.

' BAGENAL, BAGNAL, BAGNALL. (See US. v. 328.) I am completing a family history of the Irish branch of the Bagenal family, and should be glad to obtain information from any reader of ' N. & Q.' willing to correspond. PHILIP H. BAGENAL.

17, Clarence Drive, Harrogate.

ITALIAN GENEALOGY. In a MS. genealogy (drawn up by the Breton historian Augustin du Paz) of the French branch of the Angier family, dated 1625, which has lately come into my hands, is the following statement :

" Philippe Angier de Loheac, qui suivit les guerres au royaume de Naples, auquel il se maria en 1'illustre maison des princes de Itilianne, des- quels il prit le nom, reservant les armes (de vair pleines) de Loheac et Du Plessis Angier: du- quel Philippe est issue 1'illustre maison des Marquis de Corilanne."

The only Neapolitan family (or indeed throughout Italy) that I can meet with bearing these arms is that of " Loffredo of Naples," who appear to have borne the titles of prince and marquis. But I have not been able at present to identify them as the " illustrious house " referred to (though it seems not unlikely), nor can I find any mention of such a title as " Marquis de Corilanne." Can any reader learned in Italian families help me ?

C. J. BRTTCE ANGIER. 8, Dray ton Road, West Baling.

LEGENDS OF FLYING.

(11 S. v. 409.)

MY ignorance of the details of the legend of Eleazar ben Judah's flying journey pre- cludes me from identifying any story of the Far East as bearing a close resemblance to it. Indeed, legions of such w^ondrous achievements are recorded in the Buddhist and Taoist writings. Thus Buddhists hold movement without stepping on the ground as one of the five or six superhuman endowments of the Brahmanistor Buddhist saints (' Ta-ming-san-tsang-fah-su,' fifteenth entury, torn. xxi.). In the fifteenth book of the ' Ekottavikagama ' the Buddha is represented as particularizing two of his disciples for their respective fondness for evitation and aviation. From the ' Supple- ments to the Parinirvana-sutra,' torn, ii., it may be rightly inferred that formerly there existed not a few Indian sceptics as
 * o the great supernatural faculty of Mahaka-

syapa, the most distinguished disciple of the Buddha, and thence Ms successor, for, tradition says, he made his arrival too late at the dying scene of his master because of lis having hurried thereto only on foot, instead of resorting to his own power of light. The great philosopher Nagardjuna opines every Buddha to be able to go through he air in several distinct ways, viz., by alternating steps, by standing still, by sitting omposedly, by posing himself horizontally, jy walking upon innumerable lotus flowers which he would cause to pervade the atmosphere, or by locating himself in a lying palace. Of all the miracles wrought >y the Buddha, the one which proved most fficacious in bringing in converts appears o have been the display of his preternatural flight (Sang-Min, &c., ' King-liuh-i-siang,