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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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[22]
Stowe's
Survey
of
London.
[23]
Stark's
Picture
of
Edinburgh,
p.
144.
[24]
"Letters
and
Despatches
relative
to
the
taking
of
the
Earl
of
Ormond,
by
O'More.
A.D.
1600."
[25]
In
1784,
the
line
of
Milford
Haven
packets
was
re-established,
the
rates
of
postage
between
London
and
Waterford
to
be
the
same
as
between
London
and
Dublin,
viâ
Holyhead.
The
packets
were,
however,
soon
withdrawn.
CHAPTER
III.
ON
OLD
ROADS
AND
SLOW
COACHES.
If
we
seem
in
this
chapter
to
make
a
divergence
from
the
stream
of
postal
history,
it
is
only
to
make
passing
reference
to
the
tributaries
which
helped
to
feed
the
main
stream.
The
condition
of
the
roads,
and
no
less
the
modes
of
travelling,
bore
a
most
intimate
relationship,
at
all
the
points
in
its
history,
to
the
development
of
the
post-office
system
and
its
communications
throughout
the
kingdom.
The
seventeenth
century,
as
we
have
seen,
was
eventful
in
important
postal
improvements;
the
period
was,
comparatively
speaking,
very
fruitful
also
in
great
changes
and
improvements
in
the
internal
character
of
the
country.
No
question
that
the
progress
of
the
former
depended
greatly
on
the
state
of
the
latter.
James
the
First,
whatever
might
be
his
character
in
other
respects,
was
indefatigable
in
his
exertions
to
open
out
the
resources
of
his
kingdom.
The
fathers
of
civil
engineering,
such
as
Vermuyden
and
Sir
Hugh
Myddleton,
lived
during
his
reign,
and
both
these
eminent
men
were
employed
under
his
auspices,
either
in
making
roads,
draining
the
fen
country,
improving
the
metropolis,
or
in
some
other
equally
useful
scheme.
The
troubles
of
the
succeeding
reign
had
the
effect
of
frustrating
the
development
of
various
schemes
of
public
utility
proposed
and
eagerly
sanctioned
by
James.
Under
the
Commonwealth,
and
at
intervals
during
the
two
succeeding
reigns,
many
useful
improvements
of
no
ordinary
moment
were
carried
out.
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