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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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In
the
early
part
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
reign,
disputes
were
frequent
with
the
foreign
merchants
resident
in
London
with
regard
to
the
foreign
post,
which,
up
to
this
reign
they
had
been
allowed
to
manage
among
themselves.
In
1558,
the
Queen's
Council
of
State
issued
a
proclamation
"for
the
redresse
of
disorders
in
postes
which
conveye
and
bring
to
and
out
of
the
parts
beyond
the
seas,
pacquets
of
letters."
It
would
seem
that
soon
after
the
arrival
of
the
Flemings
in
this
country,
in
the
previous
century,
they
established
a
post-office
of
their
own,
between
London
and
the
Continent,
appointing
one
of
themselves
as
postmaster,
by
the
sufferance
and
favour
of
the
reigning
sovereign.
"Afterwards,"
says
Stowe,[6]
"by
long
custom,
they
pretended
a
right
to
appoint
a
master
of
the
Strangers'
Post,
and
that
they
were
in
possession
of
from
the
year
1514."
This
continued
till
1558,
in
which
year
the
foreign
merchants
fell
out
among
themselves
over
the
question
of
appointing
a
postmaster.
The
Flemings,
aided
by
the
Spanish
ambassador,
chose
one
Raphael
Vanden
Putte;
the
Italians,
by
this
time
a
considerable
body
of
foreigners,
chose
one
of
their
number
for
the
vacant
place.
Not
being
able
to
agree,
the
disputants
referred
their
case
to
the
English
Council,
when,
to
the
surprise
of
the
foreigners,
their
right
to
appoint
at
all
was
publicly
disputed.
The
English
merchants
took
up
the
matter
very
warmly,
and
addressed
the
Privy
Council
in
two
or
three
petitions.
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