Page 36 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1680-1689

* 8 3 0 5 NEWS [June 25-28, 1683)

ALL persons are desired to take notice, That there will constantly go every day a Post from London to Epsom,
Letherhead, Gilford, Godlyman, Haslemore, Midhurst, Petworth and Chichester, and will return to London every day from
the same places.

* 8 3 0 6 NEWS [July 26-30, 1683)

Whereas the Post to Poole, went formerly by way of Blandford, it now goes off from Salisbury, by way of
Fordengbridge, Christchurch, Wimbome, and so to Poole, by which all the Country thereabouts may be accommodated.

* 8 3 0 7 NEWS [August 6-9, 1683)

These are to give Notice that a Direct Post is setled for the Conveyance of Letters from London to Uxbridge,
Wiccombe, Beconsfield, Thame, Oxford, Woodstock, Easton, Chipping-Norton, Morton-in-Marsh, Evesham, Worcester,
Kiddermister, Bewdley, and Ludlow, and that there is a Branch of that Post to Shipston upon Stower, Campden, Stow
i'th'Would, Alcester, Henley in Arden, &c. The Post parts from London on the usual Post-nights, viz. Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday.

* 8 3 0 8 NEWS [November 19-22, 1683)

These are to give Notice, That Mr. Thomas Rawson being appointed by his Majesties Post-Master-General, to be
Deputy Post-Master of East-Retford in Lincoln-shire; All persons that have occasion to send Letters or Packets to the said
Town of Retford, or any other Town or Village within six Miles of it, may direct them to be put in Retford Bag, and they
will be safely and speedily conveyed by the said Mr. Rawson: The time prefixed for directing of Letters so, will begin on
Saturday the 24th of November, 1683.

* 8 3 0 9 NEWS [December 17-20, 1683)

Whereas the former keeping of Holy days by the Penny-Post at Christmas, &c. has been found to be prejudicial to
Correspondence. These are to give notice that the Officers thereof, in Conformity to the practice of the General Post
Office, will give their attendance at the respective Offices in the several Precincts of the Penny-Post in London, Westminster,
and the places adjacent, as well in Christmas as all other Holy days (Sundays only excepted) and where any of the Letter-
Receivers are Tradesmen and their Shops not open: Such Persons that send Letters, &c. are desired to leave them at the
Coffee-Houses known to be appointed for that purpose, that they may be Collected and delivered in due time.

* 8401 NEWS [January 7-10, 1684) {Julian Calendar: January 7-10, 1683}

A Book having been lately published by John Dunton called [The Pleasant Art of Money Catching] wherein the
Author, among other Collections, to make his Book sell, gave a very false account of the Methods of the Penny-Post; The
said Dunton thinks himself obliged to make this publick Confession of his Error, and for satisfaction for the Injury done to
the Office, has taken that part out of all the Books that remain Unsold.

* 8 4 0 2 NEWS [January 28-31, 1684) {Julian Calendar: January 28-31, 1683}

We are wanting several Posts from France, Flanders, and Holland, as well as Ireland, the Pacquet-Boats not being able
to pass, by reason of the abundance of Ice that is on the Coasts.

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