Page 64 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1710-1719

-- 11 0 7 NEWS [July 3-5, 1711]
These are to give Notice, that from and after Friday the 6th of this Instant July, the Post will go every Night in the
Week (Sundays excepted) between the General Post-Office and Tunbridge-Wells, during the Summer Season.

--1108 NEWS [October 25-27, 1711]

These are to give Notice, That the Harley Pacquet Boat will be ready to sail from Bristol to New-York on the 18th of
November next, Wind and Weather permitting, with the Mails of Letters for Her Majesty's several Dominions on the
Continent of America; and, that Thursday the 15th of the said Month is appointed the last Day for receiving Letters at the
General Post-Office, to be sent to the Continent by the said Pacquet Boat.

--12 0 1 NEWS [January 15-17, 1712] {Julian Calendar. January 15-17, 1711}

These are to give Notice, That the Edgley Gally, will be ready to sail from Bristol to New York, on the lOth of the next
Month, Wind and Weather permitting, with the Mails of Letters for Her Majesty's several Dominions on the Continent of
America; and that Thursday the 7th of the said Month will be the last Day for receiving Letters at the General Post-Office,
to be sent to the Continent by the said Vessel.

--12 0 2 NEWS (General-Letter-Office, Dublin, May 7, 1712)

The Anne Packet-Boat sailed on Thursday the lst of May, having on board the Packet of the 29th of April last, from
this Office, was taken by a French Privateer; before she was taken, the said Packet or Mail with all the Letters were thrown
over-board and sunk. Whereof this is to give Notice, that all Persons may know that what Letters they sent to England or
Foreign Parts by that Post were lost.
N. B. In the Mail were the Letters for England, and Foreign Parts, that came from the Country to this Office on the
28th and 30th of April.

-- 1 2 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, London, May 14, 1712)

These are to give notice, That the Ann Pacquet-Boat, imploy'd in Correspondence between Great Britain and Ireland,
was taken by a French Privateer on the 3d Instant, in her Passage to Holyhead; and that the Mail, with the Letters of the
29th of April from Dublin, was sunk, to prevent the same falling into the Enemies Hands.

--12 0 4 NEWS [June 24-26, 1712]
These are to give Notice, That from and after Thursday the Third of July next, the Post will go every Night, (Sundays
excepted) between the General Post-Office, London, and Tunbridge-Wells, during the Summer Season.

--12 0 5 NEWS [July 31-August 2, 1712]

These are to give· Notice, that Packet Boats being established to pass twice a Week between Dover and Dunkirk,
Letters will be taken in at the General Post Office for Dunkirk on Friday next, being the 8th Instant, and afterwards on
every Monday and Friday.

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