Page 133 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1760-1769

Notice is hereby given, that this Regulation will commence the 5th of January next, and that all Letters by this Conveyance,
will, over and above the Inland Rates, be charged Two Pence each Single Letter, for Packet-Postage, and so in Proportion.
HEN. POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6601 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 8, 1766)
His Majesty's Postmaster General having been pleased to establish Two additional Packet Boats of 170 Tons Burthen,
to be navigated with 20 Men each, for the Conveyance of Mails, Expresses, and Passengers to Barbadoes, Grenada,
Antigua, St. Christopher's, Jamaica, Pensacola, Charles-Town, and back to Falmouth; as also to establish Three others of
the same Tonnage, and the like Number of Men, instead of those at present employed in the Service;
Notice is hereby given, that a Mail will be made up and dispatched from this Office accordingly, on Thursday next the
13th Instant, being the second Thursday in the Month; and for the future a Mail is intended to be dispatched from hence
the second Thursday in every Month.
HENRY POTTS, Secretary.

- 6 6 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, March 24, 1766)

Whereas the Post-Boy carrying the Cross Road Mail from Salisbury to Bath and Bristol, was, on Saturday Morning
last the 22d Instant, about One or Two o'Clock, attacked and robbed, between Warminster and Westbury, by a Foot-Pad,
who took from him the said Mail, in which were contained the Letters from Portsmouth, Gosport, Winchester,
Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Salisbury; for Westbury, Froome, Shipton-Mallet, Bruton, Wells, Melksham, Devizes,
Trowbridge, Bradford, Bath, and Bristol.
The Person who committed this Robbery, is described to be about Five Feet high, had on a blue Great Coat, and a
large Stick or Club in his Hand.
This is therefore to give Notice, that whoever will discover and apprehend, or cause to be discovered and
apprehended, the Person who committed this Robbery, will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to a Reward of Fifty
Pounds.
HENRY POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6 6 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 24, 1766)

A Daily Post, Sundays excepted, will go between London and Tunbridge Wells, and between London and
Brighthelmstone, as usual; likewise between Bromley and Sevenoaks, from this Time to Michaelmas next.
HEN. POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6 6 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 26, 1766)

His Majesty's Postmaster General having been pleased, for the Improvement of Correspondence, to order a Post to be
established three additional Times a Week, to and from Winchester, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight; Notice is hereby
given, that the same will commence on Monday the 5th of January next.
HEN. POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6701 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 24, 1767)

A daily Post, Sundays excepted, will go between London and Tunbridge Wells, and between London and
Brighthelmstone, as usual; likewise between Bromley and Sevenoaks, from this Time to Michaelmas next.
. HEN. POTTS, Secretary.

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