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1760-1769

Correspondence with Northampton, Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Deroy, and Nottingham, considerably quickened
and improved.
And also a new Cross Road Branch betwixt Salisbury, Portsmouth, and Gosport, through Stockbridge and Winchester,
by which the Correspondence of Portsmouth, Gosport, Winchester, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight, with Plymouth,
Exeter, and all Parts of Comwal~ Devonshire, and Dorsetshire, as well as with Bristo~ Bath, Devizes, Melksham, Bradford,
Trowbridge, and Salisbury, will be considerably quickened and improved.
And having also been pleased to order, that the Mail betwixt Chesterfield and Manchester, shall for the future pass
from Tidswell thro' Buxton, to Stockport, instead of passing thro' Chapple in Frith, as it does at present;
Public Notice is hereby given, That these several additional Conveyances, Improvements, and Regulations, will
commence on Monday the 6th of July next.
And whereas great Numbers of Letters have hitherto been privately collected and delivered as well in these as in other
Parts of the Kingdom, contrary to Law, to the great Prejudice of the Revenue of the Post Office; Notice is likewise hereby
given that all Carriers, Coachmen, Watermen, Wherrymen, Dispersers of Country News-Papers, and all other Persons
whatsoever, hereafter detected in the illegal collecting, conveying, or delivering of Letters, will be prosecuted with the
utmost Severity.
N. B. The Penalty is FIVE POUNDS for every Letter collected or delivered contrary to Law; and ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS for every Week this Practice is continued. ·
HENRY POTIS, Secretary.

-- 61 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, July 1, 1761)
Notice is hereby given, that the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London, to begin on Monday next the 6th Instant, and continue during the Summer Season, as
usual.
HENRY POTIS, Secretary.

-- 6 2 0 1 NEWS (General Post Office, January 1, 1762)

Publick Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that a Mail for the Corunna, will be made up and
dispatched from hence on Tuesday next the 5th Instant; but that no more Packet Boats, after that Time, will be permitted
to sail for the Corunna.
HEN. POTIS, Secretary.

-- 6 2 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, January 15, 1762)

Publick Notice is hereby given to all Merchants, and others, corresponding with any Parts of the Kingdom of Spain,
that no more Letters will be received, or forwarded from hence, directed to any Part of that Kingdom, during the present
War.
HEN. POTIS, Secretary.

-- 6 2 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, London, February 5, 1762)

Publick Notice is hereby given to all Persons corresponding with His Majesty's Island of Bellisle, that Letters, for the
Future, will be regularly forwarded, from Plymouth, to and from that Island, by two Vessels lately hired and appointed for
that Purpose.
HEN. POTIS, Secretary.

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