[71] The packet agency had been removed from Harwich to Yarmouth during the war. Yarmouth, by road, is 124 miles from London.
[72] Mrs. Davy was born in 1760.
[73] As late as 1854 Bournemouth received its letters from Poole by donkey and cart.
[74] This was a commission of three halfpence on every dozen newspapers, besides one newspaper in every quire.
[75] From this time the expression "banker's frank" passed into a by-word, and was used to denote any frank, whether given by a banker or not, which was in excess of the prescribed number.
[76] This is Godolphin's letter:—
Treasury Chambers, June 8, 1703.
Gentlemen—My Lord Treasurer hath commanded me to signify to you his Lordship's direction that whenever your Sollicitor shall pay any fees to any Serjeant or Councellor at law, or give any sum or sums of money for coppys to any Clerk or Clerks or Officers in any Court or Courts of Record at Westminster, he shall take a ticket subscribed with the hand and name of the same Serjeant or Councellor or from the Clerk or Officer testifying how much he hath received for his fee or hath been paid by him for coppys, and at what time and how often, according to the statute in the third year of the reign of King James the First, made and provided in that behalf, and His Lordship directs you to take care that what money shall be hereafter expended for law charges relating to the Revenue under your management, the same be so expressed in the Bill of Incidents, that it may appear to His Lordship that the above-mentioned directions have been duly comply'd with.—I am, gentlemen, your most humble servant,
William Lowndes.
Sir Robert Cotton, Knight, and
Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart.
[77] 42 George III. cap. lxxxi. (June 20, 1802).
[78] This experience is not to be compared with that of Inspector Dicker, who in 1839 wrote to the Secretary of the Post Office as follows:—