Page 97 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1740-1749

-- 4 4 0 9 NEWS (General Post-Office, October 19, 1744)

Publick Notice is hereby given, to all whom it may concern, That the Mail for Flanders, which used to go out from this
Office upon Monday Night, will not go out till the Tuesday Night of every Week for the Time to come, or till Orders shall
be given to the contrary.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 5 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 22, 1745)
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 next, the 24th Instant, and to continue during the Summer Season,
as usual.
GEO. SHEL VOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 5 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 24, 1745)

Whereas the Communication with Flanders, by the Way of Ostend, is interrupted, and for the present at an End;
Publick Notice is hereby given to all Merchants and others whom it may concern, That as their Letters for the several Parts
and Provinces of the Austrian Netherlands are now, of Necessity, to be forwarded by the Way of Holland, it will be most
proper for them to inclose their Letters and Packets, or recommend them to such as may be their Friends or
Correspondents in Holland, from thence to be forwarded to the Places they are designed for in the Netherlands aforesaid;
as also that it will be most safe and convenient for them, that the Answers, in Return to their said Letters, should be sent
under Cover to Holland, to be forwarded from thence to this Office.
But in regard to the Correspondence with the Army, all Persons are hereby to take Notice, That their Letters, directed
for any Person or Persons in the same, will be received at this Office, and from hence forwarded to the Army, in the
Manner hitherto observed, a proper Method of conveying the Army Letters directly from hence, having been settled by the
Way of Holland, in Conformity to the Usages in regard thereto, during the Wars of King William and Queen Anne.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 5 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, London, November 12, 1745)

TVhereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intitled, An Act
for establishing a General Post-Office for all her Majesty's Dominions, and for settling a Weekly Sum out of the Revenues
thereof for the Service of the War, and other her Majesty's Occasions, It is (amongst other Things) enacted to the Purport
and Effect following: That there shall be one General Post-Office established within the City of London, and one Master of
the said General Post-Office shall from time to time be appointed by her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, by Letters
Patents under the Great Seal of Great Britain, by the Stile of her Majesty's Postmaster General; which said Master, and his
Deputies, and their Servants and Agents, and no other, should have the Receiving, Carrying, and Delivering of Letters and
Packets, to and from all Places in Great Britain and Ireland, North America, the West Indies, and other her Majesty's
Dominions, (except as in the said Act is excepted;) And that no Person or Persons whatsoever, or Body Politick or
Corporate, in any Part of the said Kingdoms, Plantations and Colonies in the West Indies and America, other than such
Postmaster-General appointed as aforesaid, and his Deputy or Deputies, or Assigns, should presume to receive, take up,
order, dispatch, convey, carry, recarry, or deliver any Letter or Letters, Packet or Packets of Letters (other than as in the
said Act is excepted) or make any Collection of Letters, or set up or employ any Foot-Post, Horse-Post, or Packet-Boat, or
other Vessel or Boat, or other Person or Persons, Conveyance or Conveyances whatsoever, for the receiving, taking up,
ordering, dispatching, conveying, carrying, recarrying, or delivering any Letter or Letters, Packet or Packets of Letters, by
Sea or Land, or on any River within her Majesty's Dominions (other than as in the said Act is excepted) on Pain of
forfeiting Five Pounds of British Money for every several Offence, and also the Sum of a Hundred Pounds of like Money,
for every Week that any Offender shall continue to act against the Tenor of the said Statute.

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