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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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The
first
and
most
important,
perhaps,
left
London
and
took
the
following
towns
in
its
way;
the
distance
between
each
town
constituting
a
"stage;"
viz.
Dunstable,
Dayntry
(Daventry),
Collsill
(Coleshill),
Stone,
Chester
and
Liverpool,
from
which
latter
place
a
packet
sailed.
The
remaining
two
mails
took
slightly
different
routes
to
Holyhead,
whence
also
a
packet
sailed
for
Ireland.
We
find
there
were
also
two
posts
between
London
and
Bristol
and
the
west
of
England;
the
first
going
by
way
of
Maidenhead,
Newbury,
Marlborough
and
Chippenham;
the
other,
by
Hounslow,
Maidenhead,
Reading,
Marlborough,
Maxfield
to
Bristol.
To
Dover
there
were
also
two
posts;
the
one
passing
through
Dartford,
Gravesend,
Rochester,
Sittingbourne,
Canterbury,
Margate
and
Sandwich;
the
other
passing
through
Canterbury
direct,
without
calling
at
the
two
last-named
places.
The
posts
above
enumerated
were
called
the
"ordinary"
posts,
and
may
be
supposed
to
have
been
the
permanent
arrangements
for
the
transmission
of
the
Government
despatches.
When
these
posts
did
not
avail--and
it
must
be
understood
that
they
were
never
allowed
to
make
a
détour
into
the
cross-roads
of
the
country--"extraordinary
posts"
were
established.
Generally
speaking,
these
extra
posts
were
put
on
for
any
service
which
required
the
greatest
possible
haste.
Here
is
an
extract
from
the
records
of
which
we
have
spoken,
on
this
point.
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