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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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On
one
occasion,
Prideaux
himself
helped
to
seize
the
Plymouth
mail
which
had
just
arrived
in
London,
and
was
proceeding
to
the
office
of
the
Earl
of
Warwick
near
the
Royal
Exchange.
Burlamachy
and
the
Government
failed
to
restore
peace.
In
the
Commission
on
the
Post-Office,
to
which
we
have
already
referred,
the
subject
was
taken
up,
but
the
resolution
of
the
Committee
only
rendered
matters
more
complicated.
The
Committee,
though
Prideaux
contrived
to
be
made
Chairman
of
it,
declared
that
the
sequestration
of
two
years
before
"was
a
grievance
and
illegal,
and
ought
to
be
taken
off,"
and
Mr.
Witherings
restored
to
office.
The
Commission
decided
against
the
Government,
both
as
regards
the
sequestration
and
the
monopoly
of
letter-carrying,
which
the
King
proclaimed
in
1637.
Both
questions
were
left
in
abeyance
for
two
years,
when,
in
1644,
the
Parliamentary
forces
having
begun
to
gain
an
ascendancy
over
those
of
the
King,
the
Lords
and
Commons
by
a
joint
action
appointed
Edmund
Prideaux,
the
Chairman
of
the
Committee
of
1642,
"and
a
barrister
of
seven
years'
standing,"
to
the
vacant
office.
It
is
somewhat
amusing
to
note
how
the
monopolizing
tendencies
of
the
Crown,
denounced
but
two
years
ago
by
the
Parliament,
were
now
openly
advocated
and
confirmed
by
an
almost
unanimous
vote
of
both
Houses.
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