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قراءة كتاب The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
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The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
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THE
HISTORY
OF THE
POST OFFICE
FROM ITS ESTABLISHMENT DOWN TO
1836
By
1836
By
HERBERT JOYCE, C.B.
OF THE POST OFFICE
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 Monopoly | 1 |
| 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 | |
| Witherings | 8 |
| 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 Successor | 15 |
| 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 Oxenbridge | 24 |
| 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 | |
| General Post—Dockwra's Dismissal | 33 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| 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 | 43 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| 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 | 72 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| American Posts—Thomas Neale—Andrew Hamilton—Ocean Penny Postage—Posts | |
| transferred to the Crown—Become self-supporting | 110 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Condition of the Post Office in Scotland at the time of the Union—Inaction | |
| of the English Post Office—Charles Povey—William Lowndes—Diversion | |
| of Postage from the Crown to the Public—Postage Rates increased—Electoral | |
| Disabilities—Restrictions on the common Carrier—Modification | |
| of the Penny Post—Post-horses—Franking—Illicit Traffic in Letters—Treasury | |
| Inconsistency—Post Office Farmers converted into Managers—Treaty | |
| with France—Matthew |