Page 122 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1760-1769

The Departure of the Foreign Mails from, and Arrival at London.
Depart to Arrive, Wind permitting.
France, Mondays and Thursdays. Mondays and Wednesdays.
Holland, Tuesdays and Fridays. Mondays and Fridays.
Flanders, Tuesdays and Fridays. Mondays and Fridays.
Portugal, every Tuesday. Uncertain.
Spain, every other Tuesday. Uncertain.
Directions to the DEPUTY-POSTMASTERS.
YOU are to take notice, That no Letters ought to be received by you, directed unto any Parts beyond the Seas, unless
the full Port of the same unto London be paid, and also the Port that must be paid from the Inland Post-Office to the
Foreign Post-Office, according to the Rates hereafter mentioned: viz.
For all Letters and Pacquets to any Part of Spain or Portugal, Single 1s. 6d.
Double 3s. Od.
Treble 4s. 6d.
per Ounce 6s. Od.
For all Letters and Pacquets to any Part of Italy, Sicily, Turkey, Switzerland, Single 1s. 3d.
(except Geneva) Alsace, Port-Mahon, and the Towns of Nancy, Barliduc, and Double 2s. 6d.
Luneville in Lorraine, through France, ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Treble 3s. 9d.
per Ounce 5s. Od.
For all Letters and Pacquets to any Part of Italy, Sicily, Germany, Switzerland, Single 1s. Od.
Dervnark, Sweden, Russia, and all Parts of the North, through Holland or Double 2s. Od.
Flanders, ••.••••••••••••.•..•••.•••••••••••••••••.•••.•.••••••••••••••••••••••••• Treble 3s. Od.
per Ounce 4s. Od.
For all Letters and Pacquets to Hamburgh, ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Single Os. 10d.
Double 1s. 8d.
Treble 2s. 6d.
per Ounce 3s. 4d.
But you are to take no Foreign Port for any Letters or Pacquets to France,
Flanders or Holland, but only the full Inland Postage to London.
For every Letter and Pacquet directed to Persons on Board Ships in any Port
or Harbour in Great Britain or Ireland, you are (over and above the Postage
due for the same to London and forwards) to receive one Penny, ••••••••••••••••••••• Os. 1d.

THAT all Inland Letters and Pacquets shall pay the Rates abovementioned at the Place they are last deliver'd, unless
the Party that puts them in desireth to pay it, and unless they are directed on Board any Ship (or are sent by the Penny-
Post;) and unless they be Letters and Pacquets going out of Great Britain, which have usually paid the Rates in England.
That the Postmaster-General, and his Deputies, shall receive of every Person that they shall furnish with Horses and
Furniture, or with Horses, Furniture and Guide, to ride Post in any of the Post-Roads of Great Britain or Ireland, Three-
pence British Money, for each Horse-hire for every English Mile, and Four-pence for the Guide of every Stage; but shall not
charge any Person riding Post for the carrying any Bundle or Parcel along with him, so as the same exceed not the Weight
of eighty PoundsAverdupois, to be laid on the Horse rid by the Guide: And no Deputy is oblig'd to carry above that Weight
for any Person riding Post.
That if any Deputy-Postmaster in any of His Majesty's Dominions doth not, or cannot furnish any Person riding Post
with sufficient Horses, within the Space of half an Hour after Demand, such Person is left at liberty to provide himself as
well as he can to the next Stage, and so at every Stage where he shall not be furnished. And the Person who shall furnish
such Horses shall not be liable to any Penalty contained in the said Act, by Reason thereof.
But if through Default or Neglect of the Deputy-Postmaster, the Person riding Post shall fail of being furnished with
sufficient Horses, after Demand as aforesaid, then the Deputy-Postmaster so offending shall in every such Case forfeit five
Pounds, one Moiety to the King, and the other to the Person who shall sue for the same.
That for the Encouragement of Masters of Ships, and other Persons on board Ships, on their Arrival at any Port, to
deliver to the Deputy-Postmaster at such Port-Town all such Letters and Pacquets as they have on Board, The Deputy-

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