Page 93 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1740-1749

Between London and any Part of Italy or Sicily, through France, by Way of Lyons, •.•..........•• Single 1s. 3d.
or any Part of Turkey, by Way of Marseilles. Double 2s. 6d.
Treble 3s. 9d.
Ounce Ss. Od.
And it is to be observed, that on Failure of such Payment of the above Rates, no Letters to such Foreign Parts can be
forwarded from this Office, and that for all Letters directed to Foreign Countries, by the Way of Holland, France, and
Flanders, as above, sent to this Office to be forwarded from any Parts of the Kingdom of Great Britain, distant from
London, or from any Parts of Ireland, the usual Inland Postage to London, is also to be paid over and above the Foreign
Postage.
N. B. By a Cover of separate Paper to a Letter of a single Sheet, it becomes a double Letter, and if such Cover be to a
double Letter, it becomes treble, and is to be paid for accordingly.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 3 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, June 8, 1743)

Whereas the Post-Boy with the Barnstaple Mail, was knock'd off his Horse at the End of Newport, near a Mile from
Barnstaple, the 3d of this Instant, between the Hours of Ten and Eleven at Night, by a Person unknown, who carried off
both Horse and Mail, and the several Letters therein for Exeter, London, Bristol, and other Places:
The Postmaster General thinks proper to acquaint the Publick, that whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to
be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who committed this Robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of Two
Hundred Pounds, besides the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen; or if any Person or
Persons, whether Accomplice or Accomplices in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make a Discovery, whereby
the Person or Persons who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon
Conviction of the Party or Parties, be entitled to the same Reward, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.
N. B. The Person who committed this Robbery is a thick short Man (as the Boy describes him) with black Hair; and
the Mare taken from the Boy was of a dark Colour, with a white Face, and a Tail somewhat longer than usual; some of the
Hair under the Mail Pillion was rubb'd off, and the Mare was about thirteen Hands high, and about eight Years old.

-- 4 3 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, June 25, 1743)
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 Monday the 27th Instant, and to continue during the Summer Season, as
usual.
GEO. SHEL VOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 3 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, July 23, 1743)

Posr CHAISES between London and York, and London and Northampton.

This is to acquaint the Publick, that the several Post-masters on the Road between London and York, and London and
Northampton, are ready to furnish Gentlemen, or others, with Post-Chaises, safe, easy, and well secured from the Weather,
upon as short Warning as for Post-Horses, at any Hour, either of the Day or Night. Gentlemen who have Occasion to go
Post on the above Roads, are desired to apply to Mr. Joseph Plaisto, at the Saracen's Head on Snow-Hill.
A Post-Chaise may be had at any of the Stages on the York and Northampton Roads, to go Part, or all the Way, for
one or more Stages, for those who do not chuse to travel in the Night.
N. B. All Gentlemen that travel in Post-Chaises of their own upon the Roads where Post-Chaises are already set up,
by the Authority of this Office, may be supplied with Horses, at the several Stages on those Roads, at the Rate of Nine
Pence per Mile.
GEO. SHEL VOCKE, Secretary.

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