Page 136 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1760-1769

- 6 8 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 25, 1768)

His Majesty's Postmaster-General, for the further Improvement of Correspondence, intended to establish a Post six
Times a Week, instead of three as at present, between England and Ireland, both by the Way of Holyhead and Port Patrick,
the several Regulations for that Purpose will commence on Wednesday the 6th of July next.
From that Time also the Letters between several Parts of England and Ireland, which have hitherto been sent through
London, will be circulated directly through the By and Cross Roads; by which Means the Correspondence between many
Commercial Parts in both Kingdoms will be greatly accelerated.
Notwithstanding the frequent Regulations and Improvements made by the Postmaster-General for the Benefit of
Correspondence in divers Parts of Great-Britain and Ireland, it still appears, that vast Numbers of Letters are privately
collected and delivered contrary to Law, to the great Prejudice of the Revenue: Publick Notice is therefore hereby given,
that all Carriers, Coachmen, Watermen, Dispersers of Country News-Papers, Higglers, and all others whatsoever, hereafter
detected in the illegal collecting, conveying, or delivering of Letters or Packets, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity.
The Penalty is Five Pounds for every several Offence, and One Hundred Pounds every Week such Practice is
continued: One Moiety to the King, and the other Moiety to such Person or Persons who shall inform against the Offender
or Offenders.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

•• 6 8 0 4 0001 (General-Post-Office, September 6, 1768)

His Majesty's Postmaster-General having been pleased to establish a Daily Post, Sunday excepted, to and from hence,
and the following Post Towns. All Persons within their respective Collections and Deliveries, may avail themselves thereof
who may think proper to have their Letters fetched and carried to and from the said Towns.
Abingdon. Canterbury. Dl..fllfreis. Hertford.
Annan. Carlisle. Dunstable. Hereford.
Appleby. Caxton. Durham. High \lycombe.
Ashburton. Chatham. Holkham.
Attleborough. Chelmsford. East-Grinstead. Holt.
Chesterfield. Endfield. Holyhead.
Banbury. Chester. Enstone. Howden.
Barnard's-Castle. Chipping-norton. Epsom. Hull.
Barnet. Chorley in Lancashire. Esher. Huntingdon.
Barnsley. Cirencester. Exeter. Huthersfi eld.
Bath. Claremont.
Bawtry. Clay. Fairford. Ingatestone.
Beccles. Cobham. Fakenham. Ipswich.
Beaconsfield. Cockermouth. Farnham. Ireland (By Holyhead and
Birmingham. Colchester. Farringdon. Port Patrick)
Biscester Coltersworth. Ferrybridge. Isleworth.
Bradford in Yorkshire. Coventry. Feversham.
Bridgwater. Croydon. Kelvedon.
Brighthelmstone. (*) Garstang. Kendal.
Bristol. Darking. Gerrard's-Cross. Keswick.
Dart i"ngton.
- Bromley. (*) Dartford. Gloucester. Kingston.
Brough.
Godalmin.
Burntwood.
Daventry.
Grantham.
Burroughbridge. Deal. Gravesend. Lancaster.
Leatherhead.
Bury St. Edmonds. Derby. Guildford. Ledbury.
Burnham in Norfolk. Dereham. Leeds.
Donaghadee. Hallifax. Leicester.
Cambridge. Doncaster. Hampton in Gloucesters. Lewis.
Campden. Dover. Haslemere. Liverpool.

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