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.
- 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
- Publication: Knaresborough, approximately 1820
File 66 820 F736
Acquired June 2024