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Dockwra's Pamphlet

All Gentlemen, Countrey-Chapmen, &c. can give notice of their Arrival to Town.
Shopkeepers and Tradesmen send for what they want to their Workmen.
Much time saved in Sollicitation for Money.
Appointments of Meetings among men of Business.
Bills dispersed for Publication of any Concern.
Summons or Tickets convey'd to all parts.
Brewers Entries safely sent to the Excise-Office.
Lawyers and Clients mutually correspond.
Patients send to Doctors, Apothecaries, &c. for what they want
All the Town upon the River of Thames may send by their Watermen Letters to be delivered to the Receiving-Houses
of the Penny-Post, near to most Plying-Places, from whence they will be dispersed according to their Directions, and Letters
from London to be delivered to the Watermen, to send to the said Towns.
And the Poor Prisoners can now address to their Creditors or Benefactors for one Penny, and save 5d. to buy them a
Dinner.
Many other Benefits are to be had by this Conveyance, which (though for brevity omitted) the Ingenious will find out
The Intention of the Undertakers in this Sheet, being chiefly to present to the Publick the Nature of this thing in its
Practice; but hereafter they do intend to publish a larger Satisfaction to all the Impartial; not doubting to demonstrate
undeniably the Universal Utility of this Invention, and the Unreasonableness and Invallidity of all the Objections hitherto
alledged against it.
Lastly, If any Person desire further Information, or would communicate any thing to the Office, if they please to write
to the Chief House in Lyme-street, they shall be Answered to all reasonable and just Content, and their Letters shall be
taken in free by the Receivers, provided they be thus Directed.
To Mr. Dockwra, and the rest of the Underlakers, at the Penny-Post House in Lyme-street.

London, Printed by George Larkin, in Scalding-Alley in the Poultrey. 1681.

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