Selden too, in his _Titles of Honour_, p. 29., treating of the title of the King of Man, observes that "it was like that of King of the Isle of Wight, in the great Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, who was crowned king under Henry VI." Henry Beauchamp was also crowned King of Guernsey and Jersey. He died soon after these honours had been conferred on him, June 11, 1445, when the regal title expired with him, and the lordship of the island, at the death of the Duke of Gloucester, reverted to the crown.] _Theodore de la Guard._--I have a tract by him with the title of _The simple Cobler of Aggawam, in America_, London, 1647. Who was he? and where can I find any account of him or his work? CPL. [The Rev. Nathaniel Ward was the author of this work. He was born at Haverhill in Essex, of which place his father was a clergyman; and after studying at Cambridge, became minister of Standon in Herts; but was cited before the bishop, Dec. 12, 1631, to answer for his nonconformity. Being forbidden to preach, he embarked for America in April, 1634, and settled as pastor of the church at Ipswich, or Aggawam. He returned to England in 1646, and on June 30, 1647, preached before the House of Commons, and the same year published _The Simple Cobler_. He was afterwards settled at Shenfield, near Brentwood, where he died in 1653, in his eighty-third year. Fuller, in his _Worthies_, co. Suffolk, speaking of him, says, that he, "following the counsel of the poet, 'Ridentem dicere verum, Quis vetat?' 'What doth forbid that one may smile, And also tell the truth the while?' hath in a jesting way, in some of his books, delivered much smart truth of the present times." Dr. Mather, in his _Magnalia_, remarks of him, that "he was the author of many composures full of wit and sense; among which that entitled _The Simple Cobler_ (which demonstrated him to be a subtil statesman) was most considered." This work passed through several editions in England in 1647. It was reprinted in Boston in 1713. The best edition, containing the author's subsequent additions, is that edited by David Pulsifer, Boston, 1843.] _Back._--What is the meaning and derivation of "Back," as applied to several localities in Bristol, as, for instance, The Back, Welsh Back, Temple Back, St. Augustine's Back, St. James' Back, Redcliffe Back? Many of them are not on the river, or I should have imagined it a corruption of the word bank. MALCOLM FRASER. Clifton.