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come hither, or may be put into this Office, will be sent every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for Falmouth, for the
Chance of the Packets under Sailing Orders, and if sailed, they will be forwarded by the next Boat in Turn.
Great Inconveniences having arisen to the Public by returning Letters for the Postage; Their Lordships, for the
Accommodation of Correspondence, leave it now to the Option of the Writer to pay or not beforehand to any Part of His
Majesty's Dominions either in Europe or America, except to Gibraltar or Port Mahon.
All Persons however are particularly to take Notice, that Letters and Packets from any Part of Great-Britain, Ireland,
or America, for all Places beyond the Seas not in His Majesty's Dominions, are to pay at the Office they are put in, the full
Port to London, besides the Foreign Rates they may be chargeable with, to prevent the Necessity of their being opened and
returned for the Postage.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.
A Table of the Rates of Postage, and a List of the Places to which there is an Every-Day Post, will be given to any
Person who may apply for them to the Chamber-Keeper here.

-- 6 8 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 17, 1768)

His Majesty's Postmaster General being desirous to render the Six Day Posts, which have been established at a great
Expence to most of the considerable Towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as universally beneficial as possible, have
been pleased to order the Letter-Carriers to go round their respective Walks with their Bells every Night in the Week,
Sundays excepted.
The many Instances of Letters being delayed by the Persons entrusted to bring them to this Office on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, as likewise of their not putting them into the Receiving-Houses, in order to embezzle the Penny
it has been customary to give with such Letters on those Days, has induced their Lordships to give Directions at the several
Receiving-Houses to take in, both Foreign and Inland Letters, to the usual Hour, every Day in the Week, except Sunday,
without any Gratuity.
All Persons who may be obliged to sent their Letters after that Hour to the Bell-Men, should be cautious whom they
trust therewith, to prevent their being either detained till the next Day, or destroyed for the Pence.
Each Letter-Carrier will for the Future, besides the usual Ticket at his Breast, be furnished with a Printed one of the
Hour he is daily dispatched from hence, in order to produce it to such Persons as may desire to be satisfied their Letters
are not delayed.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 6901 NEWS (General Post Office, March 21, 1769)

The Post-Boy, carrying the North Mail of Saturday last from this Office, was, on Sunday Night about Ten o'Clock,
attacked and robbed between Stamford and Coltersworth, by a single Highwayman, who opened the said Mail, and took
out one large Bag ticketed Boroughbridge, containing the following Bags of Letters, viz. Boroughbridge, Bedal, Richmond,
Gretabridge, Bamardcastle, Brough, Penrith, Carlisle, Cockennouth, JVhitehaven, Dumfries, andDonaghadee.
The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be rather lusty, about five Feet six Inches high, had on a Blue
Surtout or Great Coat, and rode on a Brown Horse or Mare, with a Running Martingal.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this
Robbery, will be intitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward by Act of Parliament for
apprehending of Highwaymen; or if any Person or Persons, whether an Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing
thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person, who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice,
such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Person who committed the Robbery, be intitled to the said
Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 6 9 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, May 16, 1769)

The Hungerford Bag of Letters, containing those also from Great Bedwin, Pewsey, Upper Heaven, Nether Heaven,
Amesbury, Lavington, Tinhead, Heystesbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford, Froom, Shipton-Mallet,

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