The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[178] Fin. Rep., 1797, no. 7, pp. 82-83; Jo. H. C., 1787, p. 817.

[179] Fin. Rep., 1797, no. 7, pp. 3, 66-83.

[180] Ibid., no. 7, pp. 52-65.

[181] Ibid., no. 7, pp. 52-65.

[182] Ibid., no. 7, pp. 8, 52-65.

[183] Fin. Rep., no. 7, p. 130.

[184] Rep. Com., 1844, xiv, pp. 9-11; app., p. 105 (78); app., p. 107 (79); app., p. 111 (83).

[185] Rep. Com., 1844, xiv, app., p. 112 (84); Cal. T. B. & P., 1742-45, p. 669.

[186] Rep. Com., 1844, xiv, app., p. 112 (85); Howell, State Trials, xix, col. 1369. This was in 1758.

[187] Joyce is of opinion that such practices were very common. So also is May (T. E. May, Constitutional History of England, 1882, iii, pp. 44-49; D. B. Eaton, Civil Service in Great Britain, New York, 1880, p. 115).