Her Majesty's Mails / An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office

by William Lewins

[117] Ibid.

[118] Lang's Historical Summary of the Post-Office in Scotland. Postmaster-General's Third Report.

[119] Report of Secret Committee, 1844, p. 9.

[120] Lords' Journal, xxii. pp. 183-6.

[121] Commons' Journal, vol. xxii. p. 462.

[122] The place was not only lucrative, but in the path of promotion. We find that, for the proper performance of these very unclerical duties, the Rev. Dr. was first rewarded with the Deanery of Lincoln and afterwards with the Bishopric of St. David's.

[123] Froude.

[124] Report of Secret Committee, 1844, pp. 14-17.

[125] Report of the Secret Committee, 1844, pp. 14-17.

[126] Ibid. Commons' Committee.