The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[120] Ibid., 1660-61, pp. 37, 82.

[121] The act of 1660 (12 Ch. II, c. 35) passed in pursuance of this agreement added nothing of importance to the act of 1657, except on the question of rates. See below, chapter VIII.

[122] Rep. Com., 1844, xiv, app., pp. 75, 76 (52, 53).

[123] Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 7, p. 140.

[124] Cal. S. P. D., 1663-64, p. 122; Rep. Com., 1844, xiv, app., pp. 86, 91 (60, 64).

[125] Ibid., 1844, xiv, app., p. 91 (64). Confirmed in 1685 (Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 11, app., 2, p. 315; 1 Jas. ii, c. 12).

[126] Cal. S. P. D., 1664-65, p. 376; 1666-67, p. 567.

[127] Cal. S. P. D., 1664-65, p. 457. Although letters might be prepaid, it was not compulsory that they should be, and the vast majority were not.

[128] Joyce, p. 46.

[129] Cal. S. P. D., 1667, p. 80.