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FOOTNOTES:
[1]
Xenophon.
[2]
Herodotus.
[3]
Travels
of
Marco
Polo,
pp.
139,
140.
[4]
Camden's
Annals.
[5]
Froude's
History,
Vol.
III.
p.
185.
[6]
Surveye
of
London,
Vol.
II.
[7]
Froude's
History,
Vol.
III.
p.
94.
[8]
Smiles's
Lives
of
the
Engineers,
Vol.
I.
[9]
Historian
of
Craven,
speaking
of
the
close
of
the
sixteenth
century.
CHAPTER
II.
THE
RISE
OF
THE
GENERAL
POST-OFFICE.
It
was
reserved
for
the
Stuarts
to
organize
for
the
first
time
in
England
a
regular
system
of
post
communication,
the
benefits
of
which
should
be
shared
by
all
who
could
find
the
means.
England
was
behind
other
European
nations
in
establishing
a
public
letter-post.
It
was
not
until
the
foreign
post
had
been
in
existence
a
hundred
years,
and
until
the
foreigners
had
drawn
particular
attention
to
their
postal
arrangements
by
their
constant
disputes,
that
the
English
government
established
a
general
post
for
inland
letters,
similar
to
the
one
whose
benefits
"the
strangers"
had
enjoyed
even
prior
to
the
reign
of
Henry
the
Eighth.
Little
progress
towards
this
end
was
made
in
the
reign
of
the
first
James,
if
we
except
a
better
organization
for
the
conveyance
of
official
despatches.
At
the
same
time,
it
ought
to
be
stated,
that
the
improved
organization
here
referred
to
was
the
groundwork
for
the
subsequent
public
post.
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