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Arundel. Eastgrinstead. Lewis. Rygate.
Brighthelmston. Godalmin. Midhurst. Steyning.
Chichester. Has Lemere. Petworth. Shoreham.
J. D. BARBUTT, Secretary.

-- 4201 NEWS (General Post Office, London, June 22, 1742)

These are to give Notice, that the Post will go every Night, (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London; to begin on Friday the 25th Instant, and continue during the Summer Season as usual.
J. D. BARBUTT.

-- 4 2 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, London, July 3, 1742)
Whereas divers Persons, thro' Ignorance or Carelessness, frequently put Letters into the General Post Offices, and the
Receiving Houses both in Town and Country, directed on board of Ships, and to Foreign Parts, without paying at the same
Time the Postage, as ought to be done; And whereas Letters and Packets are often put into the said Offices with Money
and Rings inclosed, and in Fraud of his Majesty's Revenue, divers Persons presume to send Letters with false and
counterfeit Franks;
This is to acquaint the Publick, that no Letters under any of the Circumstances aforesaid have any Right by Law to be
forwarded.
Note, That Letters going out of Great Britain (except to France, Holland, and Flanders) have by the ancient Usage
of this Office paid the Foreign Postage, and are required by the Act of Parliament so to do, at the Office in Great Britain
where the same are first put in.
Note also, That if such Letters to Foreign Parts are put into any of the Country Offices, the Inland Postage of such
Letters to London must also be paid on putting the same into such Office.
J. D. BARBUTT.
(Note of the Editor: In the issue for July 24, 1842, the same notice was issued signed by George Shelvocke, the new
Secretary to the Post Office)

-- 4 2 0 3 NEWS (Whitehall, July 27, 1742)

The Post-Master General has been pleased to appoint George Shelvocke, Esq; to be their Secretary, in the Room of
Mr. Barbutt.

-- 4 2 0 4 NEWS (General-Post-Office, London, September 29, 1742)

Posr CHAISES, between London and Bath.

This is to acquaint the Publick, that the several Post-masters on the Road between London and Bath, are ready to
furnish any Gentlemen, or others, with Post-Chaises, safe, easy, and well secured from the Weather, with a Lamp to give
sufficient Light in dark Nights, upon as short Warning as for Post Horses, any Hour either in the Day or Night. And farther
Notice is hereby given, that whereas the Distance between Marlborough and Bath, has never yet been considered as Post
Road, it will be computed at Thirty four Miles, according to Tompion's Measurement between those two Places.
Gentlemen who have Occasion to go Post on the Bath Roads, are desired to apply to Mr. Miller, Post-master, at the White
Bear in Piccadilly.
N. B. A Post Chaise may be had at any of the Stages on the Bath Road, to go Part, or all the Way, for one or more
Stages, for those who do not chuse to travel in the Night.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

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