Chancellor of Cambridge? or who was the Lord Chamberlain who at that
time was Chancellor of the university? I have no means of referring to
any University History as to these points.

COLL. REGAL. SOCIUS.


_Black Doll at Old Store Shops._--I asked you some time since the origin
of the Black Doll at Old Store Shops; but you did not insert my Query,
which curiously enough has since been alluded to by _Punch_, as a
mystery only known to, or capable of being interpreted by, the editor of
"Notes and Queries."

A.C.

[We are obliged to our correspondent and also to our witty
contemporary for this testimony to our omniscience, and show our
sense of their kindness by giving them two explanations. The
first is, the story which has been told of its originating with
a person who kept a house for the sale of toys and rags in
Norton Falgate some century since, to whom an old woman brought
a large bundle of rags for sale, with a desire that it might
remain unopened until she could call again to see it weighed.
Several weeks having elapsed without her re-appearance, the
ragman opened the bundle, and finding in it a _black doll_
neatly dressed, with a pair of gold ear-rings, hung it over his
door, for the purpose of its being owned by the woman who had
left it. The plan succeeded, and the woman, who had by means of
the black doll recovered her bundle of rags, presented it to the
dealer; and the story becoming known, the black doll was adopted