The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[140] Cal. B. P., 1697-1702, xliv, 56.

[141] Two men living in Limerick and Tipperary claimed in 1692 that they had organized a Penny Post in Ireland (Cal. S. P. D., 1691-92, p. 449). In 1704 the Countess Dowager of Thanet petitioned to be allowed to establish a Penny Post in Dublin, but nothing was done (Cal. T. P., 1702-07, lxxxix, 305).

[142] Cal. T. P., 1697-1702, lxxi, 40; Charles Knight, London, 1842, iii, p. 282.

[143] Hist. MSS. Com., Rep., 12, app., pt. 7, p. 262; Cal. S. P. D., 1690-91, p. 50; Hist. MSS. Com., Rep.,15, app., pt. 9, pp. 144, 180; Cal. T. P., 1557-1696, p. 284.

[144] Cal. S. P. D., 1689-90, pp. 59, 74; Cal. T. P., 1557-1696, p. 203.

[145] Stow, London, bk. v, p. 401; DeLaune, Present State of England, ed. 1690, p. 343.

[146] Cal. T. P., 1557-1696, pp. 369, 461.

[147] Acts of Parliament of Scotland, ix., pp. 417-419 (5 Wm. III).

[148] Cal. S. P. D., 1574-1660, p. 273.

[149] Joyce, pp. 196, 300.