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Rates set during the Commonwealth Period
1656 - Edinburgh to London 4d Unpaid Rate
The 1654 'Ordinance touching the Office of Postage of Letters, Inland and Foreign' laid
down a single letter rate of 4d sterling between Edinburgh and London.
261h August 1656. Edinburgh to London Jetter carried by the
public post and charged 4d unpaid.
For
his Loving Cousin
Ffrancis Kinloch
at the three whyt
bells nere Somerset
yard in the Strand
London
