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Excerpt from The History of the Post Office: From Its Establishment Down to 1836 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 General Post - Dockwra's Dismissal; Posts regarded as Vehicles for the Propagation of Treason - Wildman - Cotton and Frankland - Post Office Establishment - Revenue - Building in Lombard Street - Dispersion of Letters - Salaries and Wages - Newspapers - Drink and Feast Money - Post-horses - Quartering of Soldiers - Postmasters' Emoluments - Scotland - Ireland - Bye-letters - Illicit Traffic - Treasury Control - Post Offices grouped together and let out to farm - Stephen Bigg - Expresses - Flying Packets - State of the Roads - Progress of the Penny Post - Appointment of Secretary and Solicitor - Purchase of Premises in Lombard Street; State of the Packet Service - Ship Letters - Special Boats built for the Harwich Station - M. Pajot, Director of the French Posts - Establishment of West India Packets - Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy - Regulations for the Management of the Packet Stations - Conditions of Employment - Smart and Bounty Money - Passes required for Passengers - and for Goods - Regulations habitually infringed - Smuggling - Packets forbidden to give Chase - Practice on Capture of a Prize - Packet Stations at Falmouth and at Harwich conducted on different Principles - Packets employed to carry Recruits - Letters not to be carried in Foreign Bottoms - Court-Post - Restoration of Packet Service with Flanders - John Macky, Packet Agent at Dover - The Postmasters-General act as Purveyors of News to the Court - Their Interview with Godolphin - Posts set up for the Army in Flanders - Packet Establishment placed on a Peace Footing - Dummer's Bankruptcy and Death; American Posts - Thomas Neale - Andrew Hamilton - Ocean Penny Postage - Posts transferred to the Crown - Become self-supporting About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.