Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1907 — Bank of England Secrets. [ARTICLE]

Bank of England Secrets.

Many secrets are hidden away In the vaults of the Bank of England. In the annual account of the receipts and expenditures of the paymaster general on behalf of the supreme court of judicature, which deals with securities worth millions, is a curious list of remnants of bygone legal contests. In all the list comprises 186 items, boxes, bags, sealed packets, etc., which are still in safe keeping at the bank. There are heirlooms, articles of Jewelry, some presentation plate and “a bag of clipped money,” the sealed parcels having various indorsements. The chancery division Is well represented here, but although a search has not revealed any remains of the famous cause Jarndyce versus Jarndyce at least two of the relics date back to the eighteenth century.