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-%14 Missing mail bags. They are assumed to have been stolen. Increase in the reward ............................................. 1%
-%15 Mail robbery. General Penny Post Office in Gerrard Street, Soho, broken into. £100 reward ........................... 1%
-%16 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed at Ewell while picking up bye letters there ........................................................... 197
-%17 England, Portugal & America. New postal rates (37 Geo 3, c18) ........................................................................... 197
-9701 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Derby and Nottingham ............................................................................ 198
-9702 France, Holland, &c. Letters cannot be sent by private vessels .............................................................................. 198
-9703 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Chudleigh ......................................................................................................... 198
-9704 Mail robbery. Mail bags from several towns have been stolen ................................................................................ 199
-9705 Mail robbery. James Sibbert, a Messenger, charged with taking bank notes out of letters ................................. 199
-9706 West end of London. Opening of a new express office ...............................................•............................................. 199 -
-9707 Money letters. Drafts payable to bearers should be cut in halves ........................................................................... 199
-9708 Money letters & Money orders. Regulations ............................................................................................................. 200
-9709 Mail robbery. List of stolen Bank notes ...................................................................................................................... 201
-9710 Mail robbery. A stolen Bank note recovered ................................................................. : ........................................... 201
-9801 Jamaica. Extra mail dispatched from Falmouth on March 21, 1798 ....................................................................... 201
-9802 Demerary, Essequibo and Berbice. Schedule of mail ............................................................................................... 201
-9803 Clerks of the Roads. The firm is dissolved. Money Order Office conducted under a new name ....................... 201
-9804 Ireland. Letters from Ireland arriving on Sundays may be delivered immediately ............................................... 202
-9805 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Farnborough .................................................................................................... 202
-9806 Concessionary rate. Sergeant-Majors excluded from sending letters at reduced rates ........................................ 202
-9807 Mail robbery. List of stolen Bank notes ...................................................................................................................... 203
-9808 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Midhurst ........................................................................................................... 203
-9901 Mail robbery. A caution to lottery office keepers ...................................................................................................... 203
-9902 Ship letters. Establishment of a special rate. 4d inwards & half the packet rates outwards (39 G3 c76) .......... 203
-9903 Officers' mail. Special rate when serving under the Duke of York in Holland ..................................................... 204
-9904 Mail robbery ................................................................................................................................................................... 204
-9905 Mail robbery ................................................................................................................................................................... 204
-9906 Officers' mail. Special rate when serving under the Duke of York in Holland ..................................................... 205
-9907 Officers' mail. Special rate when serving under the Duke of York in Holland ..................................................... 205
-9908 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Chorley and Wigan .................................................................................. 205
-9909 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Wigan and Chorley .................................................................................. 206

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Charles II's Proclamation of August 31, 1683 .............................................................................................................................. 207
Queen Anne's Proclamation of June 23, 1711 .............................................................................................................................. 209
Act of 9 Anne, Cap. 10 .................................................................................................................................................................... 211
Dockwra's first pamphlet ................................................................................................................................................................ 223

Bibliography ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 227
Index .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 229
Index of British Towns .................................................................................................................................................................... 245

TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Oxford Gazette of November 16-20, 1665. Front page ............................................................................................................. 4
Postage to North America (May 22, 1784) ......................................................................................................... : ........................... 10
Measure to prevent the loss of Notes and Drafts (September 22, 1792) .................................................................................... 22
Late fee regulations (December 5, 1792) ....................................................................................................................................... 32
Mail robbery (December 29, 1799) ................................................................................................................................................. 58

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