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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 27. 
ture of “our own dear lake.” That Medora was 
a gentlewoman, and not from the slave-market, is 
shown by Conrad’s appreciation of her in the 12th 
section of the first canto of the “ Corsair ;” and why 
not formerly beloved by Ezzelin, and thus alluded 
to by him in the quarrel scene ? 
« And deem’st thou me unknown too? Gaze again | 
*At least thy memory was not given in vain, 
Oh! never canst thou cancel half her debt, 
Eternity forbids thee to forget.” 
The accents, muttered in a foreign tongue by 
Lara, on recovering from his swoon in the gallery,— 
*« And meant to meet an ear 
That hears him not—alas! that cannot hear”— 
were addressed, I think, to Medora; and I am 
only the more disposed to this opinion by their 
effect on Kaled. (See canto 1. sec. 14.) 
I quite agree with “Emprr” in esteeming 
“Lara” a magnificent poem, A.G. 
Ecclesfield, March 18. 1850. 
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury.—Y our cor- 
respondent “C.” (No. 24. p. 382.) will find in the 
Alumni Etonenses, by Harwood, printed at Bir- 
mingham by Pearson, and by Caddell, jun., and 
Davies, Strand, 1797, at p. 46. in the account of 
Whichcot, under the head of “ Provosts of King’s 
College,” the following passage :—“ A volume of 
his sermons was published in 1628, from copies 
taken in short-hand as they were delivered from 
the pulpit, with a preface by Lord Shaftesbury.” 
Ina MS. account of the provosts it is stated, “ the 
first volume of his discourses, published by Lord 
Shaftesbury, 1698 ;” and that one of his brothers 
was alive in 1749, at Finchley, aged 96. 
A letter from Lord Lauderdale to Dr. Whichcot 
is in MS. Harl. 7045. p.473. I take the figures 
from a printed, but not published, account of some 
of the proceedings relating to Dr. Whichcot’s de- 
privation of his proyostship at the Restoration, in | 
which Lord Lauderdale says, “‘ For I took an op- 
portunity, in the presence of my Lord Chamber- 
Jain, your Chancellor, to acquaint his Majesty with 
those excellent endowments with which God hath 
blesst you, and which render you so worthie of the 
place you enjoy, (which the King heard very 
graciously) ; afterwards he spoke with my Lord 
Chamberlain about your concerns, and he and J 
are both of opinion there is no fear as to your con- 
cerns.” Was Shaftesbury ever Chancellor of Cam- 
bridge? or who was the Lord Chamberlain who 
at that time was Chancellor of the university ? I 
have no means of referring to any University His- 
tory as to these points. 
Cott. Reeat. Soctius. 
Black Doll at Old Store Shops. —Y 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 
“ NoTres AND QUERIES.” A.C. 
[We are obliged to our correspondent and also to 
our witty contemporary for this testimony to our om- 
niscience, and show our sense of their kindness by 
giving them two explanations. 
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 as the favourite 
sign of this class of shopkeepers. Such is the romance of 
she black doll; the reality, we believe, will be found in 
the fact, that cast-off clothes having been formerly pur- 
chased by dealers in large quantities, for the purpose 
of being resold to merchants, to be exchanged by them 
in traffic with the uncivilised tribes, who, it is known, 
will barter any thing for articles of finery, — a black 
doll, gaily dressed out, was adopted as the sign of such 
dealers in old apparel. ] 
Journal of Sir William Beeston—In reply to 
the inquiry of “C.” (No. 25. p. 400.). I can state 
that a journal of Sir William Beeston is now pre- 
served in the British Museum (MS. Add. 12,424.), 
and was presented to the national collection in 
1842, by Charles Edward Long, Esq. It is a folio 
volume, entirely autograph, and extends from 
Dec. 10, 1671, when Beeston was in command of 
the Assistance frigate in the West Indies, to 
July 21, 1673; then from July 6 to September 6, 
1680, in a voyage from Port Royal to London; 
and from December 19, 1692, to March 9, 1692-3, 
in returning from Portsmouth to Jamaica; and, 
lastly, from April 25 to June 28, 1702, in coming 
home from Jamaica to England. By a note written 
by Mr. Long on the fly-leaf of the volume, itzed 
appears that Sir William Beeston was baptithe 
Dec. 2, 1636, at Titchfield, co. Hants, and was in 
second son of William Beeston, of Posbrooke, 
the same parish, by Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur 
Bromfield. (See Visit. C. 19. Coll. Arm.) His 
elder brother, Henry, was Master of Winchester, 
and Warden of New College; and his daughter 
and heir Jane married, first, Sir Thomas Mody- 
ford, Bart., and, secondly, Charles Long, to whom 
she was second wife. ‘To this may be added, that 
Sir William received the honour of knighthood at 
Kensington, October 30, 1692, and was Governor 
of Jamaica from 1698 till 1700. Inthe Add. MS, 
The first is, the story - 
