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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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A
suit
was
instituted
in
the
law
courts,
and
whilst
it
was
pending,
both
offices
got
completely
disarranged,
some
of
Lord
Stanhope's
staff
going
without
salary
for
as
long
as
eight
years;
"divers
of
them,"
as
we
find
it
given
in
a
petition
to
the
Council,
"lie
now
in
prison
by
reason
of
the
great
debt
they
are
in
for
want
of
their
entertainment."
The
dispute
was
not
settled
until
after
Charles
the
First
had
become
king--namely,
in
1632--when
Lord
Stanhope
was
induced
to
retire
from
the
service
as
"Chief
Postmaster,"
the
De
Questers
at
the
same
time
assigning
the
office
they
had
jointly
held
to
William
Frizell
and
Thomas
Witherings.
A
royal
proclamation
was
thereupon
issued,
to
the
effect
that
the
King
approved
of
the
above
assignment.
"The
King,"
it
went
on
to
say,
"affecting
the
welfare
of
his
people,
and
taking
into
his
princely
consideration
how
much
it
imports
his
state
and
this
realm,
that
the
secrets
thereof
be
not
disclosed
to
forraigne
nations,
which
cannot
be
prevented
if
a
promiscuous
use
of
transmitting
or
taking
up
of
forraigne
letters
and
packets
should
be
suffered,
forbids
all
others
from
exercising
that
which
to
the
office
of
such
postmaster
pertaineth,
at
their
utmost
perils."
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