Fort Montague Bank. I promise to pay Mr. John Flag or bearer on demand five halfpence. : Value received [blank] 18[blank]. Entd. C. Cannon. For the Governor of Fort Montague & Co., E. Hill

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Title: Fort Montague Bank. I promise to pay Mr. John Flag or bearer on demand five halfpence. : Value received [blank] 18[blank]. Entd. C. Cannon. For the Governor of Fort Montague & Co., E. Hill
Creator: Fort Montague Bank (Knaresborough, Yorkshire)
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: Knaresborough, England? and England Knaresborough
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from first line of text.
All engraved; with small oval image of Fort Montague, flying the Union Flag in center left.
A skit note, proporting to be a banknote, but published from a house in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, known as Fort Montague by linen weaver Thomas Hill and his son 1770-1. Hill, an eccentric, knighted himself and started calling himself governor of the fort, publishing these 'banknotes' which were intended as entry tickets for the house. Others started trying to defraud people with them, so the authorities eventually stopped them being printed.
"No." printed in upper left; "Five" printed in lower left.
Laid on blue album paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; June 2024.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 18 x 10 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 66 820 F736

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Genre: Bank notes
Engravings
Satires
Material: illustration ;
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Name): Fort Montague Bank (Knaresborough, Yorkshire)
Subjects: Fort Montague Bank (Knaresborough, Yorkshire)

Fort Montague Bank. I promise to pay Mr. John Flag or bearer on demand five halfpence. : Value received [blank] 18[blank]. Entd. C. Cannon. For the Governor of Fort Montague & Co., E. Hill

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