The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[168] Cal. T. B., 1697-1702, lxiv, 17; ibid., 1702-07, lxxxvi, 134.

[169] E. Green, Bibliotheca Somersetensis, 1902, i, p. 108; Joyce, pp. 107-108; Latimer, Annals of Bristol, p. 416.

[170] D. N. B., xliii, p. 140; Knight, London, 1842, iii, p. 280.

[171] Parl. Papers, 1812-13, Rep. Com., ii, pp. 4, 36, 37, 98; Fin. Rep., 1797, no. 7, p. 114; D. N. B., xliii, p. 140.

[172] Fin. Rep., 1797, no. 7, pp. 82-83; Joyce, pp. 251, 275.

[173] Fin. Rep., 1797, no. 7, p. 127; Jo. H. C., 1796-97, p. 581.

[174] Cal. T. B. & P., 1739-41, p. 234; 5 Geo. III, c. 25. The Post Office occasionally made good the loss of valuables from theft or robbery, but as a rule refused to do so. Cal. T. P., 1729-30, p. 75; Cal. T. B. & P., 1731-34, p. 74.

[175] Jo. H. C., 1787, p. 800.

[176] Ibid., 1787, p. 800.

[177] Jo. H. C., 1787, p. 800.