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1760-1769

Loughborough. Petersfi eld. Shrewsbury. Walsingham.
Lowestoff. Plymouth. Sittingbourn. Ware.
Lynn. Portsmouth. Southall. Warrington.
Prescot. Southa""ton. Warwick.
Maidstone. Preston. Stafford. Watford.
Manchester. Stilton. Watton in Norfolk.
Mansfield. Queenborough. Stoke in Norfolk. Wells in Somerset.
Margate. C*) Stone. Wells in Norfolk.
Market Harborough. Ramsgate. (*) Stamford. Wellington in Somerset.
Marlow. Rawcliffe. Staines. Wetherby.
Middlewich. Reading. Stratford on Avon. Whitehaven.
Retford. Stroud, Gloucestershire. Wigan.
Namptwich. Ripley. Wight, Isle of.
Newark. Rochdale. Tadcaster. Winchester.
Newcastle. Rochester. Taunton. Windham in Norfolk.
Newmarket. Rotherham. Tedbury. Windsor.
Newport-Pagnel. Royston. Thame. Wingham in Kent.
Northallerton. Rumford. Thetford. Witham in Essex.
Northampton. Ryegate. Thorne. Wolverhampton.
Nottingham. Tiverton. Worcester.
Northwich. Sandwich. Tunbridge. (*) Worksop.
Norwich. Saxmundham. Tuxford. Workington.
Sevenoake. C*> Wooburn.
Oakingham. St. Albans. Uxbridge. Woodstock.
Oxford. Sheffield.
Shipston upon Stower. Wakefield. Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Penrith. Shifnal. Walsall. York.
(*) = from Midsummer to Michaelmas
A Mail is dispatched from London to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London every Day, Wednesday and Sunday
excepted. Also to and from Morpeth, Alnwick, Belford, and Berwick A Post is likewise established Six Times a Week between
Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Glasgow, Greenocl\, and other intennediate Towns in Scotland
Letters are sent from hence on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Arundel, Brighthelmstone, Chichester,
Grayes, Midhurst, Petworth, Steyning, Shoreham and Wisbicb, and return hither on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 6 8 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, September 6, 1768)

His Majesty's Postmaster General having been pleased to establish a sufficient Number of Packet-Boats to sail
between Falmouth and New York, Charles Town, and the West-India Islands, to support a regular Monthly
Correspondence to and from these Kingdoms and all Parts of his Majesty's extensive Dominions in America.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the several Mails for America, upon this New Arrangement, are to be made
up at this Office on Wednesday the 5th of October next, and will continue to be dispatched from hence in the same Manner
upon the first Wednesday in every Month.
The Mail for New York will contain the Letters for all the Provinces on the Continent of America, from Virginia
Northwards. That for Charles Town will include the Letters for North and South Carolina, Georgia, and East and West
Florida, except for Pensacola, the Letters for which Place will be forwarded from Jamaica by every Opportunity. And the
Mail from the West Indies will contain the Letters for Barbadoes, all the Leeward Islands, and Jamaica, from whence the
Packet-Boats are, instead of proceeding to Pensacola, to return immediately to Falmouth.
Upon the Arrival of these several Mails from hence at Falmouth, the Packet-Boats are to proceed with them to Sea
immediately, Wind and Weather permitting; but if they should be unavoidably detained one or more Days, such Letters as

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