proposal to that effect was sent to him by one
of the Duke of Schomberg's emissaries. Indignant at the insulting
proposal, the Baron of Courtstown seized a card, which was accidentally
lying near him, and wrote upon it this answer: "Go, tell your master, I
despise his offer! Tell him that honour and conscience are dearer to a
gentleman than all the wealth and titles a prince can bestow!" The card
happened to be the "six of hearts," and to this day that card is
generally known by the name of "Grace's card," in the city of Kilkenny.

I derive these particulars principally from the _Memoirs of the Family
of Grace_, by Sheffield Grace, Esq. 4to. London, 1823, p. 42.

W.L.

_Florins._

The following extract from the Issue Roll of Easter I Edward III. 1327,
may interest the inquirers into the antiquity of the FLORIN, lately
introduced into our coinage:--

"To Robert de Wodehouse, keeper of the King's Wardrobe, for the
price of 174 florins from Florence, price each florin as purchased,
39-1/2_d_. paid to the same keeper by the hands of John de Houton,
his clerk, for one pound and one mark of gold, to make oblations on
the day of the coronation for the Lord the King:--and in the manner
was delivered 104 florins and a mark of 70_s_. by the king's
command, under the privy seal, which was used before he received
the government of this kingdom,--L28.12.6."

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_John Hopkins, the Psalmist._

Sir,--Little is known of the personal history of John Hopkins, the
coadjutor of Sternhold in the translation of the Psalms. It is generally
agreed that he was a clergyman and a schoolmaster in Suffolk, but no one
has mentioned in what parish of that county he was beneficed. It is
highly probably that the following notes refer to this person, and if
so, the deficiency will have been supplied by them.

In Tanner's List of the Rectors of Great Waldingfield in Suffolk, taken
from the Institution Book at Norwich, there is this entry:--

"Reg. xix. 55 12 Aug. 1561
Joh. Chetham, ad praes. Willi Spring, Arm.
Jo. Hopkins.
168. 3 April, 1571.
Tho. Cooke, ad praes. Edw. Colman, B.D."

In the Parish Register of Great Waldingfield is the following:--

"Buried, 1570. Mr. John Hopkins, 23rd Oct."

D.

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NOTES IN ANSWER TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Genealogy of European Sovereigns._

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