_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,--£28.12.6."
[Greek: Phi].
_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."