Page 61 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1700-1709

--0702 NEWS [July3-7, 1707]

These are to give Notice, That the Post will go to and from the General Post-Office in London and Tunbridge every
Day in the Week, (Sundays excepted) from Tuesday next, being the 8th Day of July, during the Summer Season; from
whence the Letters will be conveyed to and from the Wells as usual.

•• 0 8 0 1 NEWS [July 5-8, 1708]

These are to give Notice, That the Post will go to and from the General Post-Office in London and Tunbridge every
Day in the Week (Sundays excepted) from Tuesday next, being the 13th Instant, during the Summer-Season; between which
Place and the Wells, the Letters will be convey'd as usual.

-- 0 9 0 1 NEWS [July 12-14, 1709]

These are to give Notice, That from Tuesday next, being the 19th Instant, the Post will go between the General Post-
Office in London and Tunbridge Wells every Day in the Week, Sunday excepted, during the Summer Season.

•• 0 9 0 2 NEWS [July 12-14, 1709]

These are to give Notice, That for the Benefit of Correspondence, a Post will be settled from and after Monday the
18th Instant, to go between Oxford and Bath through the Towns of Abington, Wantage, Marlborough and Devizes, three
times a Week backwards and forwards, where Deputies for receiving and conveying all Letters are appointed by her
Majesty's Postmaster-General, by whom the Management of the several Stages is committed to the Care of Mr. Joseph
Quash.

-- 0 9 0 3 NEWS [November 29-December 1, 1709]
Whereas Charles Povey, and divers Traders and Shop-keepers in and about the Cities of London and Westminster,
Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjacent, and several Persons ringing Bells about the Streets of the said Cities and
Borough, have set up, imploy'd, and for some time continued a Foot-Post, for Collecting and Delivering Letters within the
said Cities and Borough, and Parts adjacent, for Hire under the Name of the Half-penny Carriage, contrary to the known
Laws of this Kingdom, and to the great Prejudice of her Majesty's Revenues arising by Posts; her Majesty's Postmaster-
General has therefore directed Informations in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer to be exhibited against the said Charles
Povey, and several Shop-keepers and Ringers of Bells, for Recovery against every of them £100 for such their setting up,
and for every Week's continuance thereof; and also £5 for every Offence in Collecting and Delivering of Letters for Hire as
aforesaid, contrary to the Statute for erecting and establishing a Post Office.

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