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I The Burgh Posts - 1668 I

No postal markings appear on Burgh Post letters, so they cannot be positively Identified. However, letters on
burgh business and addressed to and from officials of the burgh can be surmised to have been carried by the
burgh messenger.

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271h August 1668. Selkirk to Edinburgh letter carried, almost certainly, by the Burgh Post. The evidence for this is
that the letter, on burgh business, was addressed to the Dean of Guild of the Burgh of Selkirk and one of the
letter's signatories, William Mitchellhill, was a prominent baillie of the Burgh, later to become a provost. The
address panel (with modem spelling) reads:

For
Our loving and affeetionate
brother Patrick Angus present

dean of guild of the burgh of Selkirk,
in his absence to our affectionate
brother Andrew Anderson
Edinburgh