The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[130] Ibid., 1664-65, p. 51.

[131] Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 12, app., pt. 7, pp. 14, 93; Cal. S. P. D., 1665-66, p. 14. Cal. S. P. D. Add., 1600-70, p. 713.

[132] Cal. S. P. D., 1665-66, p. 573.

[133] Ibid., 1667, p. 260.

[134] Stow, London, bk. ii, p. 163.

[135] Notes and Queries, series 9, i, p. 122; Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 15, app., pt. 2, p. 19; Cal. S. P. D., 1670, p. 578.

[136] Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 15, app., pt. 2, p. 19.

[137] Stow, London, bk. v, pp. 403-04; Thos. DeLaune, Present State of London, 1681, pp. 346-47; W. Thornbury, Old and New London, ii, p. 209; Noorthouck, Hist. of London, 1773, p. 252. Noorthouck is mistaken in making Murray the promoter of the London Penny Post, although the idea may have originated with him.

[138] Notes and Queries, ser. 6, xi, p. 153; Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 10, app. 4, pp. 125, 132; Joyce, p. 38.

[139] DeLaune, Present State of London, 1681, p. 345.