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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
57
Whilst
communication
between
different
large
towns
was
comparatively
easy--passengers
travelling
from
London
to
York
in
less
than
a
week
before
the
close
of
the
century--there
were
towns
situated
in
the
same
county,
in
the
year
1700,
more
widely
separated
for
all
practical
purposes
than
London
and
Inverness
are
at
the
present
day.
If
a
stranger
penetrated
into
some
remote
districts
about
this
period,
his
appearance
would
call
forth,
as
one
writer
remarks,
as
much
excitement
as
would
the
arrival
of
a
white
man
in
some
unknown
African
village.
So
it
was
with
Camden
in
his
famous
seventeenth-century
tour.
Camden
acknowledges
that
he
approached
Lancashire
from
Yorkshire,
"that
part
of
the
country
lying
beyond
the
mountains
towards
the
western
ocean,"
with
a
"kind
of
dread,"
but
trusted
to
Divine
Providence,
which,
he
said,
"had
gone
with
him
hitherto,"
to
help
him
in
the
attempt.
Country
people
still
knew
little
except
of
their
narrow
district,
all
but
a
small
circle
of
territory
being
like
a
closed
book
to
them.
They
still
received
but
few
letters.
Now
and
then,
a
necessity
would
be
laid
upon
them
to
write,
and
thereupon
they
would
hurry
off
to
secure
the
services
of
the
country
parson,
or
some
one
attached
to
the
great
house
of
the
neighbourhood,
who
generally
took
the
request
kindly.[30]
Almost
the
only
intelligence
of
general
affairs
was
communicated
by
pedlars
and
packmen,
who
were
accustomed
to
retail
news
with
their
wares.
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