Page 115 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1750-1759

the above Circumstances, can, for the Time to come, be forwarded from hence, or from any other Post Office in the
Kingdom.
N. B. Letters to Holland and Flanders are forwarded without any Foreign Postage demanded here, but if they are
sent from the Country the Inland Postage must be paid to London.
GEO. SHELVOCKE.

-- 5 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, July 4, 1758)

These are to give Notice, that the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London; to begin To morrow Night, and to continue during the Summer Season as usual.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 5 9 0 1 NEWS (General Post Office, June 20, 1759)

Notice is hereby given to all Merchants, and others, that may have Occasion to correspond with His Majesty's Island of
Guadalupe, that Letters will be constantly forwarded from hence to the said Island, by the West India Mail, upon the first
Saturday of every Month.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 5 9 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, July 2, 1759)

These are to give Notice that the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London, to begin on Thursday next the 5th Instant, and to continue so to do during the Summer
Season as usual.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

- 5 9 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 20, 1759)

Publick Notice is hereby given, That, for the Time to come, no Person whatsoever will be permitted to pass from
England, in any of the King's Packet Boats, stationed at Harwich or Dover, without first obtaining a Passport from one of
His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
All Persons, intending to return to England in the said Packet Boats, are in like Manner to produce a Passport from
His Majesty's Minister at the Hague, or from His Majesty's Consul or Vice-Consul at Flushing, before they can be received
on Board.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.
(Note of the editor: this Notice was re-issued in April, 1760 with the signature of Henry Potts, the new Secretary to the
Post Office)

-- 5 9 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, November 28, 1759)

Whereas many Persons put Letters into this Office for His Majesty's Army in Germany, and omit to pay the legal
Postage, without which they cannot be forwarded, This is therefore to give Notice, That a Bag for the said Army is
dispatched from hence every Tuesday and Friday Night, and that the Letters will be received at this Office, and at all other
Offices and Receiving Houses in Town and Country, upon Payment of One Shilling, Foreign Postage, for every Single
Letter, and so in Proportion for Double and Treble Letters, and by the Ounce Weight at Four Shillings per Ounce, over
and above the Inland Postage to London.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

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