(3) By farming, the pay of postmasters will be made so inconsiderable that they will grow careless.
(4) The expectations of the people now at this juncture so highly raised to hopes of ease and freedom, will be disappointed when they see new monopolies.
Suggestions for reducing the office into one channel, for easing the people, encouraging the postmasters and raising money for the public:—
1. To declare it unsafe for private persons to erect post stages without licence.
2. To chose faithful persons in all the roads and appoint a supervisor on each road.
3. To declare that you have appointed them postmasters and give power to their controller only to sign labels for speedy conveyance of mails and give them writs of assistance.
Signed by Robert Girdler and seven others.—Calendar of State Papers (Domestic Series), 26th November, 1652.
No. 5.
Offers of the well-affected postmasters to the Posts' Committee....