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 432 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S. X. JUNES, 1922. Bacon Society in January, 1912. The former, though much larger than the original^ is far the better. The miniature is a most beautiful one, in quite exceptional condition, ^^ due, no doubt, to an eighteenth-century I send yr Grace by Captain Robinson (Com- I leather folding-case which has preserved it inandr of the Tokeley Gully), who sails from ! from light. The marginal inscription, in hence to-morrow, two of the finest pieces I think Hilliard's well-known gold lettering, runs, TOKELEY GULLY. In the Goodwood archives is a letter dated Nov. 28, 1727, from Owen McSwiny, at Venice, to the Duke of Richmond, in which the following occurs :- he ever painted. The reference is to the views of Venice, by Canaletto, which adorn the walls of Goodwood House. Is the name of the ship an English place- name ? J. LANDFEAB LUCAS. 101, Piccadilly. AUTHOR OP PHRASE WANTED. In * Some Observations upon an Article in Blackwood's Magazine,' Byron makes use in inverted commas of the phrase " that will not be willingly let die." Prom whom is he quoting ? The date is 1820. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. [Milton. Reason of Church Government. '1 AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. Could any reader locate the following ? " A river here, there an ideal line." I think it is by Wordsworth but cannot trace it. 2. Who wrote W. B. W. " 1578. Si Tabula Daretur Digna Animum Mallem &.S. 18." CHARLES L. LINDSAY. 97, Cadogan Gardens, S.W. OLD AND NEW STYLE (12 S. x. 369). The Treasury's financial year has not, in recent times, corresponded with the civil year. Before the introduction of the new style, the civil year ended on March 24 and the financial year ended on Michaelmas Day (Sept. 29). Under the new style the civil year has ended on Dec. 31, but the termina- tion of the financial year has varied from time to time. Sometimes even two accounts were to be found. Thus one account was made up for the year ending on Oct. 10 (old Michaelmas Day), 1785, and another account was made up to Jan. 5, 1786 (old Christmas Day). In 1832 the annual Budget " Sometimes her mouth with deep regret is grave, j was presented for the year ending April 5 I know." Hut. snrmlifis wArA ta.lrAn for tVift vpa.r ftndinc I have been told it is Keats, but cannot find it. F. L. 3. Can anyone oblige me with the author of " Hitch your waggon to a star." I believe it to be Emerson, but I have been but supplies were taken for the year ending March 31. This anomaly of the existence of distinct terminations of the financial year appears to have existed until 1854, when by 17 and 18 Viet., c. 94, it was enacted that the it in the volume of his works i financial accounts should be made up for possess. T. H. BATTEN. the year ending March 31 It may be noted that the " income and property tax " year continues to terminate on April 5, as fixed in 1842 (5 and 6 Viet., c. 35), and not yet altered. It may also be noted that many Excise and other licences are for years ending June 30, July 5, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, &c., which Foxdeane, Chislehurst. NICHOLAS HILLIARD. (12 S. x. 168, 229.) MY attention has only just been drawn to this I which "do not correspond' 'with" the" closing query. The reference is, probably, to a o f the financial accounts, miniature by Nicholas Hilliard which has | THOS C MYDDELTON been in my possession since 1903. I find '' w ,, n that I also have noted that it was in the j Adair Hawkins collection in 1825, with a| REVERSING THE UNION JACK (12 S. x. 391). reference, "see Montagu's 'Bacon,'" so 1 1 Before the invention of wireless tele- presume it is illustrated or mentioned in j graphy, signals of distress at sea, like other that work, and I remember, at the time, I signals, were made with the flags used in the making some unsuccessful efforts to trace " International Code '" of the Mercantile an earlier provenance. There are at least two reproductions of the miniature, one .as Marine, which, being common to all countries, enabled detailed information to be given. At the frontispiece to Hepworth Dixon's ' Story j an earlier date, before there was such a code, a of Lord Bacon's Life' (1862) and another in ship advertised the fact that she was in an anniversary pamphlet published by the J difficulties by firing a gun, if she had one, and