Check
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A check was a hand-written note to a banker requesting a certain sum be paid to an individual (The payee) by the bank (the Drawee, Acceptor and payer) for the person who wrote it (The Drawer). This is a type of Bill of Exchange.
The typical text was as follows:
(Date and location) Please to pay to (payee) or order (Sum of money written out) and place the same to (drawer). per yours, To (Drawee) (Signature)
Source:
RBS Group. The Story of Banking: A history of British Banking. http://www.rbs.com/about03.asp?id=ABOUT_US/OUR_HERITAGE/OUR_HISTORY/STORY_BANKING/BRITISH_BANKING