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1780-1789

entered were made, what Post-bills were overcharged, from what Offices the missent Letters came, and to what Offices
they were forwarded. Carry on the Account from the Beginning to the End of every Quarter; add to it in one Article the
Sum of the Dead-letters, overcharged Covers and Receipts; and take an Oath to the Truth of the whole before a Magistrate
or Justice of the Peace, according to the Form hereunto annexed.
As all Deputies have the same fixed Method of claiming Credit for Overcharges, you are upon no Account to give
them Allowance for Bye-letters missent to their Offices, nor for any Overcharges whatsoever on such Letters. - Neither are
you to demand Allowance of them for Bye-letters missent or overcharged to you.
You are never to employ any Post-Boy, or Rider, but such as have taken the Oath of Office.
JOHN ARMIT, Secretary.

Form of the Oath to be sworn Quarterly, and annexed to the Account of missent
Bye-letters, Overcharges, and other Allowances on such Letters.

I deputy Post-master of and I sworn Assistant to the said Deputy, do respectively
swear, that neither We, nor any other Person for Us, or either of Us, have received any Money, or any other Consideration
whatsoever for any Part of the Demand above-written; that We have given no allowances for Overcharges, but what to the
best of our Knowledge and Belief ought to have been given; that in the monthly Vouchers sent to Mr. Fortescue, we have
charged this Office with all the Letters that ought to have been charged upon it, though the other Deputies should have
omitted to enter them in their Post-bills, and that the above Account is just and true in every Particular.
Sworn before me this day of 17

-- 8 0 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 27, 1780)

THE Post-Boy bringing the Mail from STEVENAGE to WELWYN yesterday evening, the 26th instant, was robbed of the
Mail, containing the bags with the Letters from BIGGLESWADE, HITCHIN, and STEVENAGE, for LoNDON, by a Footpad,
about a mile from Welwyn.
He is described to be about five feet six inches high, dressed in a brown coloured coat, light coloured waistcoat,
breeches, and stockings, wore his own dark coloured hair straight, and a round hat, and is supposed to have come to
· London immediately.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the person who committed this
robbery, will be entitled to a reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, over and above the reward given by Act of Parliament,
for apprehending Highwaymen; or if any person, whether an accomplice in the robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make
discovery, whereby the person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to justice, such discoverer will,
upon conviction of the party, be entitled to the same reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His
Majesty's most gracious pardon. ·
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 0 0 3 NEWS (General-Post-Office, June 29, 1780)

CHARLES-Town, in South Carolina, being restored to the King's Possession, the direct Intercourse between Great
Britain and the Southern Provinces of North America through that Town will be renewed, and a Packet will sail every
Month from Falmouth, as formerly. The first Mail/will be dispatched from this Office on the 5th of July next, being the
First Wednesday in the Month.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8 0 0 4 NEWS (General-P.ost-Office, September 16, 1780)

HIS Majesty's Post-master General think it proper to give this Publick Notice to the Members of both Houses of
Parliament, that their Letters and Packets will, on Thursday next,. the 21st Instant, begin to pass free as usual, being Forty
Days before the Summons of the new Parliament.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

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