The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[150] Cal. S. P. Am. and W. I., 1693-96, p. 637.

[151] Cal. T. P., 1697-1702, lx, 77.

[152] Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, ii, 707.

[153] See Appendix: Tables I, II.

[154] In 1765 the maximum weight for articles passing wholly by the Penny Post was lowered from 16 to 4 ounces (5 Geo. III, c. 25).

[155] 9 Anne, c. 11.

[156] A bye-letter was the name given to a letter carried over one of the great roads but not passing to, from or through London. A cross post letter passed not over the great roads, but over subsidiary or minor roads.

[157] Joyce, p. 136.

[158] Cal. T. P., 1714-19, cxc, 26; ccvi, 29.

[159] Joyce, p. 146.