Page 51 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1690-1699

* 9 7 0 4 NEWS [December 9-13, 1697]

These are to give Notice, That three Parcels of Exchequer Notes received for the Duties of Excise, and containing the
Numbers and Sums hereunder mentioned, amounting in the whole to One Thousand and Thirty Pounds, being sent by the
Post by Mr. Francis Johnson, Collector of Excise, from Portsmouth, and directed to the Commissioners of Excise at the
Excise-Office in London, on the 28th of November last were lost, together with the Portsmouth Bag between Hammersmith
and London; All Persons therefore to whom any of the said Exchequer Notes shall be offered in Payment, are hereby
desired to seize such Exchequer Notes, and to Examine the Person so tendring the same, how he came by such Note or
Notes, and from whom he received the same, and forthwith to give Notice hereof to the Cashier of His Majesties Excise, or
the Cashier of the Post-Office; and whosoever shall bring the said Bag to either of the said Cashiers, with the said
Exchequer Notes, he shall forthwith be paid the Sum of Twenty Pounds.
(Note of the Editor: a list of 183 Exchequer Notes follows with the number and amount on each)

* 9 7 0 S NEWS [December 16-20, 1697]

Whereas an Advertisement was inserted in the Gazette for the 13th of December Instant, giving Notice that 3 Parcels
of Exchequer Notes received for the Duties of Excise amounting to £1030 were lost on the 28th of November last, together
with the Portsmouth-Bag between Hamersmith and London; These are to give Notice, that the said Portsmouth-Bag,
together with the said Exchequer Notes are since found and brought to the General Post-Office in London, And the said
Notes are since paid into the General Excise.

* 9 7 0 6 NEWS [December 23-27, 1697]

These are to give notice, that the 28th of December Instant, and so on usual Post-days, a Post will go by way of Epping,
Bishop-Stortford, and Saffron-Walden, to Cambridge, and return the same way; and for the Convenience of Trade and
Correspondence, Bags will be left at the said Towns, as also at the Towns of Woodford, Chingwell, Abridge, and Farlow, with
the Letters of the said Places and Parts adjacent.

* 9 8 0 1 NEWS [March 3-7, 1698] {Julian Calendar. March 3-7, 1697}

These are to give Notice, That 77 Exchequer Bills received for the Duties on Malt, Dated, Numbred, and containing
the Principal Sums hereunder mentioned, sent by the Post from Diss in the County of Norfolk, and directed to the
Commissioners of Excise, were taken from the Postman between Rumford and London on Wednesday the 2d of March
Instant: All Persons therefore to whom any of the said Exchequer Bills shall come, or be offered in Payment, are hereby
desired to secure such Exchequer Bills, and to carry the Person tendring any of the said Bills before one of His Majesties
Justices of the Peace, to be Examined how he came by such Bill or Bills, and from whom he received the same, and
forthwith to give notice thereof to the Cashire of His Majesties Excise, or to the Cashire of the Post Office; And whosoever
shall secure any of the said Bills shall have a reasonable Reward for the same; And whosoever shall discover and apprehend
the Person (that robb'd the said Post-man) he at that time riding upon a black Mare between 13 and 14 hands high, with 3
white Feet, and a white streak down her Face, shall have a Reward of Twenty Pounds.
(Note of the Editor: a list of the 77 Exchequer Bills follows. For each the number and amount is indicated)

* 9 8 0 2 NEWS [March 24-28, 1698]

This is to give Notice, That on this Instant Monday, and every Night afterwards, (Sundays excepted) a Post is
appointed to go and come, to and from the General Post-Office in Lombardstreet, to and from the Towns following, viz.
Low-Layton, Waltham-Stow, Wanstead, Woodford, Chigwel, Abridge, Onger, Epping, Copt-Hall, and Parts adjacent.

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