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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[26]
There
were
many
exceptions,
of
course.
Numbers
of
innkeepers
were
also
the
postmasters
of
the
period.
Taylor,
the
water-poet,
travelling
from
London
into
Scotland
in
the
early
part
of
the
century,
has
described
one
of
these
men,
in
his
Penniless
Pilgrimage,
as
a
model
Boniface.
[27]
"The
Grand
Concern
of
England
explained
in
several
Proposals
to
Parliament."--Harl.
MSS.
1673.
[28]
Chamberlayne's
Present
History
of
Great
Britain.
1673.
[29]
Private
coaches
were
started
in
London
at
the
time
when
the
stage-
or
hackney-coaches
were
introduced,
and
Mr.
Pepys
secured
one
of
the
first.
Mightily
proud
was
he
of
it,
as
any
reader
of
his
Diary
will
have
learnt
to
his
great
amusement.
[30]
There
are
few
traces
in
this
country,
at
any
time,
of
public
letter-writers.
This
is
somewhat
remarkable,
inasmuch
as
then,
and
still
in
some
of
the
southern
states
of
Europe,
the
profession
of
public
letter-writer
has
long
been
an
institution.
In
England
it
has
never
flourished.
Some
years
ago
there
might
have
been
seen
at
Wapping,
Shadwell,
and
other
localities
in
London
where
sailors
resorted,
announcements
in
small
shop-windows
to
the
effect
that
letters
were
written
there
"to
all
parts
of
the
world."
In
one
shop
a
placard
was
exhibited
intimating
that
a
"large
assortment
of
letters
on
all
sorts
of
subjects"
were
kept
on
hand.
There
were
never
many,
and
now
very
few,
traces
of
the
custom.
[31]
Chambers'
Domestic
Annals.
[32]
Lord
Macaulay.
Vol.
i.
p.
388.
[33]
No
less
interesting
are
the
particulars
of
one
year's
postal
revenue
and
expenditure,
extracted
from
the
old
account-books
of
the
department,
by
the
present
Receiver
and
Accountant-General
of
the
Post-Office.
The
date
given
is
within
a
year
or
two
of
that
referred
to
in
the
text,
viz.
1686-7.
The
net
produce
of
the
year
was
a
little
over
76,000l.,
and
the
following
is
a
few
of
the
most
important
and
most
suggestive
items:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
