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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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The
postboys
were
a
source
of
great
trouble
and
vexation
to
the
authorities
of
the
Post-office
through
the
whole
course
of
their
connection
with
the
department.
A
surveyor
who
held
office
about
the
commencement
of
the
eighteenth
century,
found,
on
the
occasion
of
a
visit
to
Salisbury,
something
wrong
there,
which
he
reported
to
headquarters
in
these
terms:--
"At
this
place
[Salisbury]
found
the
postboys
to
have
carried
on
vile
practices
in
taking
bye-letters,
delivering
them
in
that
city,
and
taking
back
the
answers--and
especially
the
Andover
riders.
On
a
certain
day
he
found
on
Richard
Kent,
one
of
the
Andover
riders,
five
bye-letters--all
for
Salisbury.
Upon
examination
of
the
fellow,
he
confessed
that
he
had
made
it
a
practice,
and
persisted
to
continue
in
it,
saying
that
he
had
no
wages
from
his
master.
The
surveyor
took
the
fellow
before
the
magistrate,
proved
the
facts,
and
as
the
fellow
could
not
get
bail,
was
committed;
but
pleading
to
have
no
friends
nor
money
desired
a
punishment
to
be
whipped,
and
accordingly
he
was
to
the
purpose.
The
surveyor
wrote
the
case
to
Andover,
and
ordered
that
the
fellow
should
be
discharged;
but
no
regard
was
had
thereto.
But
the
next
day
the
same
rider
came
post,
run
about
the
cittye
for
letters,
and
was
insolent.
The
second
time
the
said
Richard
Kent
came
post
with
two
gentlemen,
made
it
his
business
to
take
up
letters;
the
fellow,
instead
of
returning
to
Andover,
gets
two
idle
fellows
and
rides
away
with
three
horses,
which
was
a
return
for
his
masters
not
obeying
instructions,
as
he
ought
not
have
been
suffered
to
ride
after
the
said
facts
was
proved
against
him."
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