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In the paper currencies of Yorkshire, the payment of so small a

sum as 6d. sometimes depended upon the condition, that the holder

of the note should bring the change of a guinea to the person who

issued it; a condition which the holders of such notes might

frequently find it very difficult to fulfil, and which must have

degraded this currency below the value of gold and silver money.

An act of parliament, accordingly, declared all such clauses

unlawful, and suppressed, in the same manner as in Scotland, all

promissory notes, payable to the bearer, under 20s. value.