Workington Hall Printing Plate for a Promissory Note of Ten Shillings. An attractive copper print plate for the Curwen Family of Workington Hall. To the top left is ''WORKINGTON HALL'' and to the top right is the Curwen Family coat of arms and motto ''si je n'estoy'' with the denomination ''TEN SHILLINGS'', Below is a dotted line for the handwritten serial/note number and the year 1797. Below that is ''I Promise to Pay on Demand or Bearer the Sum of Ten Shillings''. This example is particularly interesting as Workington Hall, the Curwen's being Lords of the Manor of Workington and were heavily involved in the First War of Scottish Indepedence (1296 - 1328). The motto, ''Si je n'estoy'' (If I had not been there), is said to come from the words of Sir Gilbert de Curwen, whose late arrival with fresh troops recruited from his estates turned the course of the Battle of Falkirk (1298), giving King Edward victory.