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THE
HISTORY
OF THE
POST OFFICE

FROM ITS ESTABLISHMENT DOWN TO
1836


By

HERBERT JOYCE, C.B.

OF THE POST OFFICE

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LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1893

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Introduction—Master of the Posts—Posts centred in the Sovereign—Instructions
for their Regulation—Travelling Post—Object of the Post
Office Monopoly1
 
CHAPTER II
The Post through the County of Kent—This Post put under the care of De
Quester—Stanhope of Harrington, as Master of the Posts, asserts his
Rights—Vacillating Decisions of the Privy Council—Sir John Coke—Thomas
Witherings8
 
CHAPTER III
Decadence of the Posts—Witherings's Plan—Introduction of Postage—Concessions
to the common Carrier—Post-haste—Witherings appointed
Master of the Inland as well as the Foreign Posts—His Dismissal—Philip
Burlamachi—Dissensions between the Lords and Commons—Edmund
Prideaux appointed Witherings's Successor15
 
CHAPTER IV
Prideaux's Activity—Unauthorised Post set up to Scotland—System of
Farming—Prideaux ceases to be Master of the Posts—Secretary Thurloe—The
Posts become the Subject of Parliamentary Enactment—Rates of
Postage—Letters circulate through London—The Travelling Post not a
Source of Revenue—Clement Oxenbridge24
 
[vi]CHAPTER V
Frequent Change of Farmers—Tediousness of the Course of Post—Existence
of the Posts not a matter of common Knowledge—Dockwra's Penny
Post—Introduction of Postmarks—Penny Post incorporated into the
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