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1710-1719

NOTICES FOR THE YEARS 1710-1719

-- 1 0 0 1 NEWS [May 8-10, 1710]
This is to give Notice, That the Letters and Packets design'd for the West Indies will be taken in at the General Post
Office 'till Thursday the 17th Instant, and the Resolution Packet-boat now ready at Bristol, is to Sail therewith so soon as
the Mail shall be put on Board her, Wind and Weather permitting.

--1002 NEWS [July 13-15, 1710]

These are to give Notice, That from Thursday next, being the 18th Instant, the Post will go between the General Post-
Office in London and Tunbridge-Wells every Day in the Week (Sundays excepted) during this Summer Season.

-- 1003 NEWS (General Post-Office, July 25, 1710)

At the last Assizes held at Kingston for the County of Surry, Elizabeth Locker was Tried on an Information exhibited
against her, in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, for ringing a Hand-bell in the Parish of St. George's Southwark, and
collecting Letters four several times for Hire, to be carried to the General Post-Office, without Authority from Her
Majesty's Postmaster-General, and a Verdict was given against her for twenty Pound for such her four Offences.

--100 4 NEWS [August 19-22, 1710]

Whereas Her Majesty has been pleased to direct, That a Monthly Correspondence be Established between this
Kingdom and Her Dominions on the Continent of America, by Packet-boats to pass to and from Bristol and New York,
- between which last Place and the several Provinces, Colonies and Settlements of New England, East and West Jersey,
Pensilvania, Carolina, Rhode Island, regular Inland Posts are already settled; and others are about to be settled thro'
Mariland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina, for the more easy and expeditious Conveyance of all Letters and Packets
which shall be conveyed by means of the said Packet-boats.
These are therefore to give Notice thereof, and that Letters will be taken in at the General Post-Office for the said
Continent of America on Thursday the last Day of this Month of August, and for the future on the last Thursday in every
Month.
The Rates for the Postage of Letters and Packets to and from the General Post-Office in London and New York, are
as follow:
For every single Letter not exceeding one Sheet of Paper •..•..••..••..••.... 1s. Od.
For every double Letter not exceeding two Sheets of Paper .......•.•....••.•• 2s. Od.
And in proportion to the same Rates for every Packet of Letters.
And for Packets of any kind of greater Weight, for every Ounce ..••..•.•••••• 4s. Od.

--100 5 NEWS [October 17-19, 1710]

These are to give Notice, That the Packet-Boat, called the Bristol, imployed in Correspondence between this Kingdom
and Her Majesty's Dominions on the Continent of America, will be ready to sail from Bristol to New-York in due Course,
with the Letters which shall be taken in at the General Post-Office, on Thursday the 26th Instant, for the said Continent.

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