Page 37 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1680-1689

* 8 4 O 3 NEWS [February 28-March 3, 1684] {Julian Calendar: February 28-March 3, 1683}

These are to give notice, that a Post will go to, and return from Newmarket, every day while the Court i6 there.

* 8 4 0 4 NEWS [March 27-31, 1684]

These are to give Notice, That the Offices in the several Precincts of the Penny-Post, will be open in the ensuing Holy-
days, and that the Messengers are directed to keep their constant Course of Collecting and delivering Letters in the Cities
of London, and Westminster, and the Country Towns adjacent, from Seven in the Morning until Nine at Night, as on other
days: And whereas many of the Receivers are Shopkeepers, whose Shops are usually shup up; All Persons are desired to -
leave their Letters at such of the Coffee-Houses as are Appointed by the Office, that they may be Collected and delivered
in due time.

* 8 4 0 5 NEWS [May 15-19, 1684]

These are to give Notice, That the Officers of the Penny-Post, will give their attendance at their several Offices in the -
ensuing Holy-days as at other times; Therefore all Persons who send Letters on those days, are desired to leave them at
such Coffee-Houses, and other Receivers whose Shops will be then open, that they may be Collected and delivered in due
time; And for the more speedy Conveyance of General Post-Letters to all Towns near London where the Penny-Post does
constantly go, This is farther to give Notice, That the Messengers of the Penny-Post are appointed by the General Post
Office to deliver all such Letters as come from any part of the Kings Dominions for the said Towns, the same day that they
come to London, to the end that all Persons may have time to answer the said Letters by the next Post following, which
Answers will come safe to the General Post Office in London, if delivered into the Receivers of the Penny-Post in the said
Country Towns.

* 8 4 0 6 NEWS [May 22-26, 1684]

For the more speedy conveyance of General Post Letters to all Towns near London, whither the Penny-Post does
constantly go, The Messengers of the Penny-Post are appointed by the General Post Office to deliver all such Letters as
come from any part of the Kings Dominions for the said Towns the same day that they come to London, to the end that all
Persons may have time to answer the said Letters by the next Post following, which Answers will come safe to the General
Post Office in London, if delivered into the Receivers of the Penny-Post in the said Country Towns.

* 8 4 0 7 NEWS [June 16-19, 1684]
These are to give Notice, That the Post will go every day (to and fro) betwixt London and Tunbridge, and also betwixt
London and Epsam, during the Season for Drinking those Waters.

* 8 4 0 8 NEWS [December 18-22, 1684]

Whereas in several Books lately published, the Authors have presumed to set forth the Methods of the Penny-Post
without Consulting the proper Officers, by which means they are mistaken in several particulars, whereof this is fit to be
Corrected, (viz.) that three days at Christmas, two days at Easter, and Whitsuntide, and on the 30th of January the Penny-
Post does not go, Although since it was Established by Authority no Holy-days have ever been kept, but the usual
Expedition has been performed for conveying Letters, &c. both in the Country Towns, and City, and frequent
Advertisements thereof have been given in the Gazette, with advice that such Persons who write on those days should leave
their Letters, &c. at the Coffee Houses, and such Shops that are then open, or at the General Offices, which are Six, and
kept for the several Precincts at the places following (viz.) The principal Office in Crosby-House in Bishopsgate Street,
That for St. Pauls at the Royal Bagnio Coffee House in Newgate Street, That for the Temple in Chichesters Rents in
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