Page 12 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

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*8705 Mail robbery. Holland mail robbed between Rochester and Harwich. Diamonds are missing ............................ 18
*8706 Post will follow His Majesty's progress during his absence from London ................................................................ 18
*8707 Mail robbery. Diamonds stolen between Colchester and Harwich, June 25th. A follow-on ................................. 19
*8708 Mail robbery. Diamonds stolen between Colchester and Harwich, June 25th. A follow-on ................................. 19
*8709 Barbados & Antigua. Establishment of a Post Office. Captain George Saintlo appointed Postmaster .............. 19
*8801 Mail robbery. Post-boy robbed between Daventry and Coventry ............................................................................. 20
*8802 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 20
*8803 A Post will go every day from London to Salisbury and back starting November 16, 1688 ................................... 20
*8804 A Post will go every day between London and Reading ............................................................................................. 20
*8901 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 20
*8902 A horse post is established between Penrith and Cockermouth and Whitehaven twice a week ........................... 20
*8903 Mail robbery. The North Mail was robbed between Kingsland and Newington ..................................................... 20
*8904 Mail robbery. The Chester mail was robbed near Highgate ...................................................................................... 21
*8905 Ireland. Packet boats to go from Highlake to Belfast three times weekly. Papist rebellion over ......................... 21
*8906 Newmarket. A Post will go there every day during His Majesty's stay there ........................................................... 21
*8907 A Post will go from London to Leigh in Essex three times a week starting December 26th ................................ 21

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*9001 List of Letter Receivers at East Smithfield, Wapping, and Ratcliffe Cross ............................................................. 23
*9002 Conveyance of letters to Cranbourn, county of Hampshire ....................................................................................... 23
*9003 During His Majesty's stay in England, a Post will go from London to His Majesty's residence ........................... 23
*9004 Scotland and Ireland. Schedule of posts ....................................................................................................................... 23
*9005 John Freeman appointed Letter Receiver at Highworth, Wilts. Schedule of posts ................................................ 23
*9006 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 24
*9007 Richard Davis appointed Letter Receiver at Montgomery. Routing of the mail .................................................... 24
*9008 Richard Haines at Newport & widow Rycroft at Whitchurch appointed Letter Receivers ................................... 24
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*9009 Conveyance of letters to Oakham and Upingham in Rutlandshire ........................................................................... 24
*9010 Thomas Whitcraft appointed Letter Receiver at Clare, Suffolk ................................................................................ 24
*9011 Bad weather preventing packet boats from coming from Holland and Flanders ................................................... 24
*9012 Bad weather preventing packet boats from coming from Holland and Flanders ................................................... 25
*9101 Postmasters General. Appointment of Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Frankland ............................................... 25
*9102 Routing of various posts .................................................................................................................................................. 25
*9103 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 25
*9201 John Cornish appointed Letter Receiver at Southam, Warwickshire ....................................................................... 25
*9202 A Post will go every day to the Buoy in the Nore while the fleet is there ................................................................ 25
*9203 A Post will go every day to Portsmouth, Sundays excepted, while the fleet is there for the Summer .................. 26
*9204 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 26
*9301 Letters will go directly to Burton upon Trent three times a week, not via Derby as formerly .............................. 26
*9302 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 26
*9401 During the war, a Post will go to Sheerness every day except Sunday ...................................................................... 26
*9402 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 26
*9501 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 26
*9601 Oxford. A post will go every day, Sunday excepted ..................................................................................................... 27
*9602 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 27
*9603 Schedule of post between Exeter and Bristol. Routing .............................................................................................. 27
*9604 Lancelot Plumer and William Barret appointed Letter Receivers for the port of London ................................... 27
*9701 A Person at the George at Grays in Essex appointed Letter Receiver. Schedule of post ...................................... 27
*9702 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 27
*9703 Post offices set up in various towns in Kent. Schedule of post .................................................................................. 27
*9704 Missing bags of mail. List of Exchequer Notes ............................................................................................................ 28
*9705 Missing mail bags containing Exchequer Notes. The three parcels have been found ............................................ 28
*9706 A Post will go to Cambridge in the usual post days. Routing .................................................................................... 28
*9801 Mail robbery. Exchequer notes stolen between Rumford and London ...................................................... : ............. 28

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