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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 8. V. FEB., 1919.

BACK-MAGAZINE DEALERS. I shall be grateful if any correspondent will give the name and address of some " back-magazine " dealer. Not long ago I went to Paternoster Row, intending to get certain magazines, if in stock, from Messrs. Charles Humphreys & Co., from whom I had bought many at various times ; but I was told at a shop near by that Messrs. Humphreys had left, and my informant did not know their new address. Of course there are many shops in London and elsewhere in which ^there are small or large lots of bygone magazines, but I know of none now where they are stocked according to titles and dates.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

8 Cleveland Square, W.

IONA : ITS ETYMOLOGY. Can any one throw light on the origin of the name lona, applied to the island called, in Irish litera- ture, " I," and (after the foundation of its celebrated abbey) " I-colum-kill " (Island of the Dove of the Church) ? Can lona be a relic of Ptolemaic geography ?

N. POWLETT, Col.

[Isaac Taylor, ' Names and their Histories,' 1896. says : " It is supposed that lona is a ghost- name arising out of the misreading of ' lona ' for

Adamnan. The island was also called ' Hii,'
 * loua ' (' lova '), an adjectival form used by

which, though not found in modern Gaelic, is supposed to mean ' island,' lona being also called Icolmkil (' I-cholum-cille '), usually translated the ' island of Columba's cell.' "]
 * la.' and ' I ' (probably variants of ' lou '),

FOUNDLING ENTRIES IN PARISH REGIS- TERS. In the Deane parish register, which I am editing for publication, occurs a curious entry of the burial of a foundling on Oct. 8, 1665. It reads as follows :

"Johannes, quidam alienus, patris, matris et patriae omnino Ignarus, vulgo vocat : John of Gods-sending."

The story goes that the boy was found one summer's morning on the doorstep of the vicarage, John Angier being the vicar.

Can any readers supply such entries of foundlings from other parish registers ?

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

BYRONIC STATUE IN FLEET STREET. On 193 Fleet Street, the house nearest to the Law Courts at the junction of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane, there is a statue with this inscription from Byron's ' Lara ' :

They were not common links that form'd the

chain

That bound to Lara Kaled's heart and brain. Can some one say by whom and why this was put up ? G. H. CLARKE.

EDWARD INGLEBY'S DESCENDANTS. Edward Ingleby of Liverpool and Sheffield (b. 1782, d. Jan. 31, 1847), fourth son of Richard Ingleby of Springfield, Holywell, by his third wife, m. Oct. 18, 1832, Miss Anne Hardesty, and had issue a son William (b. Aug. 23, 1841) and five daughters.

Will the descendants of the said William or of his sisters, or any reader who knows this branch of the family, kindly communicate with me ?

CLEMENT INGLEBY, Major R.A.F.

Sedgeford Hall. Norfolk.

CHAPMAN FAMILY OF ORMSLEY, co. LINCOLN. Richard Chapman, citizen of London, living 1704, aged 41 (grandson of William Chapman of Ormsley, co. Lincoln, and Catherine his wife, daughter of Robert Portington, younger brother of Sir Roger Portington), married Catherine, daughter of Roger Garnham of Chieveley, Berks, and had with other issue a daughter Mary, who married a nephew of the Duke of Chandos. I should be grateful if any one could tell me the Christian name and surname of her husband, and how he was nephew of the duke. The family of Brydges, Dukes of Chandos, owned the manor of Shaw, Berks, until 1709. LEONARD C. PRICE.

BLADES FAMILY OF COVERDALE AND WENSLEYDALE. Can any reader state whether John Blades of Broxwell Hall, Surrey, was in any way connected with the Blades family who for several generations resided at Caldberg in the parish of Coverham, N.R. Yorkshire ? John Blades was Sheriff of London in 1812-13, and is said to have been a native of either Coverham or Aysgarth. Mr. Ralph Blades of Field House, Aysgarth, says that John Blades was a member of his grandfather's family. The late Sheriff of London, Sir George Blades, Kt., springs from Wensleydale, and is a member of the family of the late William Blades, the well-known author of ' The Life and Typography of William Caxton,' &c. The Blades family of Caldberg, Coverham, was connected with the Chaytors of Scrafton, Coverdale, and Witton Castle, Durham ; and the late Lady Storey of Lancaster was a member of this branch of the Bladeses. As there is a hamlet called Blades within the North Riding of Yorkshire, I am inclined to believe that the Blaydes family of Oulton House in the same county, and that of High Paull, Beverley, and Ranby Hall, co.Notting- ham, were both originally of North Riding extraction.