The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[478] Post nights were probably on Wednesday and Saturday nights.

[479] London Times, 1837, Jan. 14, p. 7.

[480] Rep. Commrs., 1836, xxviii, 6th rep., p. 5.

[481] Ibid., 1836, xxviii, 6th rep., p. 5.

[482] Ibid., 1836, xxviii, 6th rep., p. 7.

[483] 5 and 6 Wm. IV., c. 25.

[484] London Times, 1836, June 20, p. 5. In accounting to France for letters sent there postpaid, England agreed to consider as a single letter any enclosure or enclosures weighing not more than a quarter of an ounce, according to the French method.

[485] Cal. T. P., 1702-07, p. 64.

[486] Ibid., p.57.

[487] Joyce, pp. 79, 81.