Page 67 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1710-1719

For every single Letter 1s. 3d.
Double 2s. 6d.
Treble 3s. 9d.
Ounce 5s. Od.
And proportionably for every Packet of Letters exceeding an Ounce Weight.

--14 0 3 NEWS [July 3-6, 1714]

These are to give Notice, That from and after Tuesday the 13th Instant, the Post will go every Night (Sunday excepted)
between the General Post-Office, London, and Tunbridge Wells, during the Summer Season.

-- 14 0 4 NEWS [July 13-17, 1714]

These are to give Notice, That Packet Boats are appointed to go Twice Weekly, between Donaghadee and Port-patrick,
for the conveyance of Letters between Ireland and Scotland, and that Letters will be taken in at the General Post-Office in
Dublin, to be forwarded from thence to Donaghadee, every Tuesday and Saturday, to commence upon Saturday the Second
of October next.

--15 0 1 NEWS (March 21, 1715) {Julian Calendar. March 21, 1714}

Two Packet Boats, viz. The King George and the Frankland, are appointed to set out once every Fortnight from
Falmouth for the Groyne, with a Mail for Spain. Letters will be taken in at the Post Office every other Tuesday, beginning
from to Morrow the 22d Instant.

-- 15 0 2 NEWS [March 22-26, 1715]

The Postmaster General of Great Britain having provided Pacquet Boats to go once a Fortnight from Falmouth to
Corunna with Letters to and from Spain: These are to give Notice to all Merchants and others that Letters for Spain will be
taken in at the General Post Office in London on Tuesday the 29th Instant, and from that Day every other Tuesday
successively.

-- 1 5 0 3 NEWS [March 29-April 2, 1715]

There being a Correspondence settled between Great Britain and Spain, by the way of Falmouth and the Groyne.
These are to give Notice to all Merchants and others that the first Mail from London for Spain went from the General Post
Office in London on Tuesday the 29th of March last, and that Letters and Packets will be taken in at the said Office on
every other Tuesday from that Day.

--1S0 4 NEWS [April 26-30, 1715]

There being a Correspondence settled between Great Britain and Spain, by the way of Falmouth and the Groyne.
These are to give Notice to all Merchants and others, that the first Mail from London for Spain went from the General Post
Office in London on Tuesday the 29th of March last, and that Letters and Packets will be taken in at the said Office on
every other Tuesday from that Day. And that Letters for Oporto, Viana and the North part of Portugal may be sent this
way, Care being taken at the Groyne to forward the same.

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