157 ([return])
[ Lond. Gaz., Sept. 14, 1685.]
158 ([return])
[ Smith's Current intelligence, March 30, and April 3, 1680.]
159 ([return])
[ Anglias Metropolis, 1690.]
160 ([return])
[ Commons' Journals, Sept. 4, 1660, March 1, 1688-9; Chamberlayne, 1684; Davenant on the Public Revenue, Discourse IV.]
161 ([return])
[ I have left the text as it stood in 1848. In the year 1856 the gross receipt of the Post Office was more than 2,800,000£.; and the net receipt was about 1,200,000£. The number of letters conveyed by post was 478,000,000. (1857).]