_A Word for "the Old Corrector."_--Allow me, as an avowed enemy to "the Old Corrector's" _novelties_, render "the Great Unknown" one act of justice. I am convinced there are but two practically possible hypotheses, on which to account for the MS. emendations: either the emendations were for the most part made from some authoritative document, or they are parts of a modern fabrication. No third supposition can be reasonably maintained. MR. KNIGHT'S view, for example, gives no account of the _immense_ number of coincidences with the conjectural emendations of the commentators. Whichever of the two hypotheses be the true one, I need hardly say that MR. COLLIER'S name is a sufficient guarantee for all honorable dealing, so far as he is connected with the MS. corrections. Permit me farther to do an act of justice to MR. COLLIER himself. In my note on a passage in _The Tempest_, I stated that _Mr. Collier_ had overlooked a parallel passage in _Richard II._ It was I who had overlooked MR. COLLIER'S supplemental note. However, I must add, that how MR. COLLIER could persuade himself to print _heat_ for "cheek," in his "monovolume edition," after he had seen the passage in _Richard II._, is utterly beyond my power of comprehension. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Injustice, its Origin._--In looking through a file of papers a few days since, I met with the following as being the origin of this term, and would ask if it is correct? "When Nushervan the Just was out on a hunting excursion, his companions, on his becoming fatigued, recommended him to rest, while they should prepare him some food. There being no salt, a slave was dispatched to the nearest village to bring some. But as he was going, Nushervan said, 'Pay for the salt you take, in order that it may not become a custom to rob, and the village ruined.' They said, 'What harm will this little quantity do?' He replied, The _origin of injustice_ in the world was at first small, but every one that came added to it, until it reached its present magnitude.'" W. W. Malta. _Two Brothers of the same Christian Name._--An instance of this occurs in the family of Croft of Croft Castle. William Croft, Esq., of Croft Castle, had issue Sir Richard Croft, Knight, his son and heir, the celebrated soldier in the wars of the Roses, and Richard Croft, Esq., second son, "who, by the description of Richard Croft the Younger, received a grant of lands" in 1461. (_Retrospective Review_, 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 472.) TEWARS. _Female Parish Clerk._--In the parish register of Totteridge appears the following: "1802, March 2. Buried, Elizabeth King, widow, for forty-six years clerk of this parish, in the ninety-first year of her age."--_Burn on Parish Registers_, 110. Is there any similar instance on record of a woman being a parish clerk? Y. S. M. * * * * * {339} Queries.