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« Come, then, Urania, aid my pen, 
The latent cause assign, — 
All other kings are mortal men, 
But Georer, ’tis plain, ’s divine.” 
The next month produced this address : — 
“ To the Author of the Epigram on the new Irish Half- 
pence. 
«© While you behold th’ imperfect coin 
Receiv’d without the grace of God, 
All honest men with you must join, 
And even Britons think it odd. 
“ The grace of God was well left out, 
And I applaud the politician ; 
For when an eyil’s done, no doubt, 
*Tis not by God’s grace, but permission.” 
Grace's Card, the Six of Hearts. 
As a note to the communications which have 
lately amused your readers, respecting the nine of 
diamonds and the curse of Scotland, allow me to 
remind you of another card which has a peculiar 
name, the origin of which is better ascertained. 
At the Revolution cf 1688 one of the family 
of Grace, of Courtstown, in Ireland, raised and 
equipped a regiment of foot and a troop of horse, 
at his own expense, for the service of King James, 
whom he further assisted with money and plate, 
amounting, it is said, to 14,0002. He was tempted 
with splendid promises of royal favour, to join the 
party of King William. A written 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 con- 
science 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 Shefiield 
Grace, Esq. 4to. London, 1823, p. 42. Vie 
Florins. 
The following extract from the Issue Roll of 
Easter, 1 Edward III. 1327, may interest the in- 
quirers into the antiquity of the Fronrin, 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, 993d. 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 ffor the Lord the King: 
—and in like manner was delivered 104 florins and a 
mark of 70s, by the king’s command, under the privy 
seal, which was used before he received the govern- 
ment of this kingdom, —£28, 12. 6.” ®, 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
119 
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 school- 
master in Suffolk, but no one has mentioned in 
what parish of that county he was beneficed. It 
is highly probable 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 Wald- 
inefield in Suffolk, taken from the Institution 
Book at Norwich, there is this entry : — 
“| Reg, xix. 55: 12 Aug. 1561. 
Joh. Chetham, ad pres, Willi Spring, Arm. 
Jo. Hopkins. 
168. 3 April, 1571. 
Tho. Cooke, ad pres. Edy. Colman, B. D.” 
In the Parish Register of Great Waldingfield is 
the following : — 
“ Buried, 1570. Mr. John Hopkins, 23rd Oct.” 
D. 
NOTES IN ANSWER TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Genealogy of European Sovereigns. 
Sir, — Perhaps the following books will be of 
service to your correspondent Q, X. Z., viz. :— 
“ A Genealogical History of the present Royal 
Families of Europe, the Stadtholders of the United 
States, and the Succession of the Popes from the 
15th century, &e. &c., by the Rev. Mark Noble.” 
London, 1781. 
* Tistorical and Genealogical, Chronological, 
and Geographical Atlas, exhibiting all the Royal 
Families in Europe, their Origin, Descent, &c., by 
M. Le Sage.” London, 1813. 
“Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chrono-. 
logical, and Geographical Atlas, &c., by C. V. 
Lavoisne.” Philadelphia, 1821. Wis dias: 
Countess of Pembroke’s Letter — Drayton's Poems 
—A Flemish Account — Bishop Burnet. 
Your correspondent, at p. 28., asks whether 
there is any contemporary copy of the celebrated 
letter, said to have been written by Anne, Countess 
of Pembroke, to Sir Joseph Williamson? I would 
refer him to Mr. Hartley Coleridge’s Lives of Dis- 
tinguished Northerns, 1833, p.290. His arguments 
for considering the letter spurious, if not conclusive, 
are very forcible, but they are too copious for this 
paper. 
Your readers, who may not be conversant with 
that undeservedly neglected volume, will confess 
their obligation, when they have consulted its 
pages, in having been directed to so valuable and 
so original awork, It may be observed, that those 
letters of the Countess which are authentic, are 
| certainly written in a very different style to the 
