Scrip was also a word for a small bag or wallet, often worn slung around the neck rather like the satchel used by London bus conductors to carry change many moons ago. (Remember those Rhuby?)

1 Samuel 17: David and Goliath:
… David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the Philistine. And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead …