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Accountable note 1767 issue
| Issuer | Bank of England |
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| Year | 1767 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | London 5th August 1767 Received of Mrs. Eleanor Strong Six Exchequer Orders amounting to Two Hundred Pounds Per Annum, described as Per Margin. for which I promise to be accountable on demand For y Gov.r & Company of the Bank of England |
| Reverse description | Uniface reverse bearing a handwritten register of 34 individual deposit entries made by the Bank of England to Mrs. Strong, spanning the period 1768 to 1784, serving as a running account of payments against the original receipt. |
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Bank of England "accountable notes" were partially printed forms completed by hand at the counter — the cashier wrote the payee's name, the date, and the sum at the time of issue, making each note individually accountable to a named bearer rather than payable to anonymous holder. By 1767 the Bank had been issuing notes in this fashion for the better part of seven decades, and the system was still preferred internally for larger denominations where traceability mattered.
Neither "Endl Minstand" nor "John Butt" appears in verified records of Bank of England cashiers or signing officials for this period — treat the signature attribution with caution until confirmed against the Bank's own archives.