Page 92 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1740-1749

-- 4 2 O 5 NEWS (General Post Office, Dublin, October 14, 1742)

WHEREAS divers Persons, thro' Ignorance or Carelessness, frequently put Letters into the General-Post-Office, and
other Post Offices in the Country, directed on board of Ships, to foreign Parts, and to Scotland, 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 Public, that no Letters under any of the Circumstances aforesaid have any Right by Law to be
forwarded.
Note, that Letters going out of Ireland (except to France, Holland and Flanders) have by the ancient Usage of the
Post-Office, paid the Postage to London, as well as the foreign Postage, and are required by the Act of Parliament so to do,
at the Office in Ireland, where the same are first put in.
Note also, that Letters directed to France, Holland and Flanders, are only to pay the Postage to London. and those
directed to Scotland, the Sea-Postage between Donaghadee and Port-Patrick, which must be paid at the Office, where the
same are first put in.
EDWARD MARTIN.

-- 43O1 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, January 15, 1743) {Julian Calendar. January 15, 1742}

Posr CHAISES between London and Harwich.

This is to acquaint the Publick, that the several Postmasters on the Road between London and Harwich, 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, at any Hour, either in the Day or Night.
Gentlemen who have Occasion to go Post on the Essex Roads, are desired to apply to Mr. Roberts, Post-master, at the
Black Bull in White Chapel.
N. B. A Post Chaise may be had at any of the Stages on the Harwich Road, to go Part or all the Way, for one or
more Stages, for those that do not chuse to travel in the Night.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 3 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, London, March 10, 1743) {Julian Calendar. March 10, 1742}

Whereas notwithstanding the publick Notice, that has been so repeatedly given by this Office, as well in the Gazette as
in other News Papers, concerning the Foreign Postage which is to be paid here for all Letters that are to go to Gennany,
Italy, or any other Country beyond Holland, France, or Flanders, Mistakes have sometimes been made, and Letters have
been delivered at this Office, directed to those Countries without paying the Foreign Postage, as required by Act of
Parliament: The Postmaster General has thought fit to advertise, That the Postage to be paid here at this Office, or at the
respective Receiving Houses or Offices, appointed and authorized for the taking in of Letters in Town or Country, by all
Persons corresponding with Gennany, Italy, or any Foreign Parts in the North or the South, by the Way of Holland, France,
or Flanders, is after the following Rates, viz.

Between London and any Part of Germany, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Denmark, or Sweden, ...••... Single 1s. Od.
and all Parts of the North (through Holland) Double 2s. Od.
Treble 3s. Od.
Ounce 4s. Od.
Between London and any Part of Spain or Portugal through France, ....••••••....•••••.....••••••. Single 1s. 6d.
or by Packet Boats directly. Double 3s. Od.
Treble 4s. 6d.
Ounce 6s. Od.

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