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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
87
We
cannot
attempt
more
than
a
short
résumé
of
the
incidents
in
the
previous
history
of
the
Scotch
Post-Office,
although
the
annals
of
the
seventeenth
century
contain
little
of
interest,
and
might,
therefore,
soon
be
presented
to
the
reader.
The
first
regular
letter-post
was
established
in
the
reign
of
James
I.
(of
England).
In
1642,
owing
to
the
sending
of
forces
from
Scotland
to
put
down
the
Irish
Rebellion,
it
was
found
that
the
post
arrangements
in
the
south-west
of
Scotland
were
defective
in
the
extreme.
The
Scotch
Council
proposed
to
establish
a
line
of
posts
between
Edinburgh
and
Portpatrick,
and
Portpatrick
and
Carlisle,
and
the
English,
being
more
immediately
concerned
in
the
Rebellion,
agreed
to
bear
the
whole
expense.[46]
In
the
Privy
Council
records
of
the
period,
we
find
a
list
of
persons
recommended
by
the
Commissioners
for
appointment
on
the
two
lines
of
road
as
postmasters,
"such
persons
being
the
only
ones
fit
for
that
employment,
as
being
innkeepers
and
of
approved
honesty."
Seven
years
afterwards
we
find
the
Post-Office
at
Edinburgh
was
under
the
care
of
John
Mean,
husband
of
the
woman
who
discharged
her
stool
at
the
bishop's
head
when
the
service-book
was
introduced
into
St.
Giles's
in
1637.
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