Besides, if at any time there should be occasion to write from anie of the coast Townes in England or Scotland to London, by this Conveyance lr̃es wilbe brought ymmediatly: & from all such places there wilbe weekely advise to & from London.
As for Example—
Anie fight at Sea: any distress of his Mats shipps, (wch Godd forbidd), anie wrong offered by any other nation to any of ye Coaste of England, or anie of his Mats forts: the Posts being punctually paid, the newes will come sooner then thought.
It wilbe, thirdlie, alledged that this service maie be p̑tended by the Lo: Stanhope to be in his graunt of Post Mr of England. To wch is answered, neither the Lo: Stanhope, nor anie other that ever enjoyed the Postms place of England, had any benefitt of the carrying and recarrying of the subiects Lr̃es: beside, the profitt is to paie ye Posts of the Road, wch next unto his Matie, belong to ye office of the sd Lo: Stanhope, and upon determinac̃on of any of the sd Posts places, by death or otherwise, the Lo: Stanhope will make as much of them as hath heretofore bin made by this said advancement of all theire places.
The Lord Stanhope now enioying what either hee or any of his Predecessos hath ever heretofore done to this day.
(Indorsed by Sec. Coke)
"Proposition for Missive Letters."
—Report from Secret Committee on the Post Office (Commons), 1844, Appx., pp. 55-6.
(iv) The Monopoly and the General Farm of the Posts.
No. 1.
"Whereas heretofore sundry wayes have bene devised to redresse the disorders among the postes of our realme in generall, and particularly