The several Rates that now are and have been taken for the Carriage of Letters, Pacquets, and Parcels, to or from any of His Majesties Dominions, to or from any other parts or places beyond the Seas, are as followeth, that is to say,
| s. | d. |
| Morlaix, St. Maloes, Caen, Newhaven, and places of like distance, Carriage paid to Rouen | { | Single | 0 | 6 |
| Double | 1 | 0 |
| Treble | 1 | 6 |
| Ounce | 1 | 6 |
| Hamburgh, Colen, Frankfort, Carriage paid to Antwerp, is | { | Single | 0 | 8 |
| Double | 1 | 4 |
| Treble | 2 | 0 |
| Ounce | 2 | 0 |
| Venice, Geneva, Legorn, Rome, Naples, Messina, and all other parts of Italy by way of Venice, Franct pro Mantua | { | Single | 0 | 9 |
| Double | 1 | 6 |
| Treble | 2 | 3 |
| Ounce | 2 | 8 |
| Marseilles, Smirna, Constantinople, Aleppo, and all parts of Turky, Carriage paid to Marseilles | { | Single | 1 | 0 |
| Double | 2 | 0 |
| ¾ Ounce | 2 | 9 |
| Ounce | 2 | 8 |
| And for Letters brought from the same places to England | { | Single | 0 | 8 |
| Double | 1 | 4 |
| Treble | 2 | 0 |
| Ounce | 2 | 0 |
| The Carriage of Letters brought into England, from Calice, Diep, Bulloign, Abbeville, Amiens, St. Omers, Montrel | { | Single | 0 | 4 |
| Double | 0 | 8 |
| Treble | 1 | 0 |
| Ounce | 1 | 0 |
| Rouen | { | Single | 0 | 6 |
| Double | 1 | 0 |
| Treble | 1 | 6 |
| Ounce | 1 | 6 |
| Genoua, Legorn, Rome, and other parts of Italy by way of Lyons, Franct pro Lyons | { | Single | 1 | 0 |
| Double | 2 | 0 |
| ¾ Ounce | 2 | 9 |
| Ounce | 3 | 9 |
| The Carriage of Letters Outwards— |
| To Bourdeaux, Rochel, Nants, Orleans, Bayon, Tours, and places of like distance, Carriage paid to Paris | { | Single | 0 | 9 |
| Double | 1 | 6 |
| Treble | 2 | 3 |
| Ounce | 2 | 0 |
|
| Letters brought from the same places into England | { | Single | 1 | 0 |
| Double | 2 | 0 |
| ¾ Ounce | 3 | 0 |
| Ounce | 4 | 0 |
| The Carriage of Letters Outwards— |
| To Norembourgh, Bremen, Dantzick, Lubeck, Lipswick, and other places of like distance, Carriage paid to Hamburgh | { | Single | 1 | 0 |
| Double | 2 | 0 |
| ¾ Ounce | 3 | 0 |
| Ounce | 4 | 0 |
| Paris | { | Single | 0 | 9 |
| Double | 1 | 6 |
| Treble | 2 | 3 |
| Ounce | 2 | 0 |
Dunkirk, Ostend, Lisle, Ipers, Cambray, Ghent, Bruxels, Bruges, Antwerp, and all other parts of Flanders.
Sluce, Flushing, Middleburgh, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Delph, Hague, and all other parts of Holland and Zealand. | { | Single | 0 | 8 |
| Double | 1 | 4 |
| Treble | 2 | 0 |
| Ounce | 2 | 0 |
All Merchants Accounts, not exceeding a Sheet, Bills of Exchange, Invoices, Bills of Lading, shall be allowed without rate in the price of the Letters, and also the Covers of the Letters not exceeding a Sheet, to Marseilles, Venice, or Legorn, towards Turkie.
The said Office is managed by a Deputy, and other Officers to the Number of seventy seven persons; who give their actual attendance respectively, in the dispatch of the business.
Upon this Grand Office, depends one hundred eighty two Deputy-Post-Masters in England and Scotland; most of which keep Regular Offices in their Stages, and Sub-Post-Masters in their Branches; and also in Ireland, another General Office for that Kingdom, which is kept in Dublin, consisting of Eighteen like Officers, and Forty-five Deputy-Post-Masters.
The Present Post-Master-General, keeps constantly, for the transport of the said Letters and Pacquets;
| Between England and | { | France, two Pacquet-Boats. |
| Flanders, two Pacquet-Boats. |
| Holland, three Pacquet-Boats. |
| Ireland, three Pacquet-Boats. |
| And at Deal, two Pacquet-Boats for the Downs. |
All which Officers, Post-Masters, Pacquet-Boats, are maintained at his own proper Charge.