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1699 -Very early example of a Scottish printed letter sent through the Post Office system
Right flonourahle,
T He Committee of the Royal Burrows prevailed with A11dre~ Mortdun
to dcby ,calling for the Mon~y due to him till Marti11111"fs next .TJi· _t
~ . you may know the Proportion due,.. by your ~urgh, I have fem: the
Incfofcd Note, and have done the liie to the refl: of the lloval Burrows, The ·
~("lo tib. 5UY. dueq '21,,,,~re'JI Mn-t-ntK' at an<J ptcceeding:-La,.,,.~ma.r 169 8 ·is
payable conform to the Taxt•lloll at Ptr~h, and the 600 lib. Sterli#g due ro
him, is payable according to the Ta:xt-lloll e>f ten Pounds made in the laft
Ocncral Convention of the 1\oyal Burrows. I am
Right H1110Hr•hle
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5 h October 1699. Edinburgh to Linlithgow un~aid letter charged 2 shillings (Scots) sent 'To the Magistrates and
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Town Council of Linlithgow'. Earlier in the 17 Century this letter would have been carried by Burgh Post but by
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1699 the Post Office's service had largely replaced many of the town-organised posts.
