  are allowed to frank newspapers, 49; their franking privilege invaded, 191; mischief resulting from a reduction of their emoluments, 193; their financial troubles, 206, 250; Clermont, William Henry, Earl of, deputy postmaster-general of Ireland, 194 Clies, Francis, captain of packet, his audacious smuggling, 90; his attention to religious observances, 90; strikes his colours, 94 Coals supplied to Post Office servants in profligate profusion, 231 Cobbett, William, inveighs against the early or preferential delivery, 342; and against the treatment of foreign newspapers, 343 Coke, Sir John, his indignant protest against the claim of the foreign merchants to have a post of their own, 12 Colours, special colours assigned to the Post Office boat employed in the Pool, 74; the colours of the packets altered at the Union with Scotland, 117 Comer, postmaster of Tunbridge Wells in 1725, 153 Common Council of London, The, sets up a post of their own to Scotland, 24 Compensation for losses by the penny post, 38; when ceased to be given, 188 Conspiracies against the State, to check these the original object of the Post Office monopoly, 7; danger chiefly apprehended from the Continent, 9; Coke's opinion on the subject, 13; the same opinion expressed in the Act of 1657, 28 Constables, the duty of, in certain cases, to seize horses for the service of the posts, 3, 6 Convention posts, establishment of, 332; their failure and the reason, 350; are gradually absorbed, 352 Conway Bridge, additional rate of postage on letters passing over, 395 Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel, Marquess of, postmaster-general from July 1834 to January 1835, and again from May 8 to May 30, 1835, 427 note Cornwall, its posts improved in 1704, 62 Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, postmaster-general from 1715 to 1721. See Postmasters-General, Part III. Cotton, Sir Robert, postmaster-general from 1690 to 1708. See Postmasters-General, Part I. Counsel in Post Office cases required to give receipts for their fees, 324 Country letter, meaning of term, 147 Courier newspaper, sum paid by the, for early intelligence from the Post Office, 345 Couriers originally employed to carry letters on affairs of State, 2 Court, The, at one time the centre of all the posts, 3; a trace of the old state of things to be found in an existing statute, 99 Court letters, definition of, in 1706, 83 note; mails detained for the Court letters, 211; these letters, unlike others, delivered the moment they arrived, 347 Court-post, his duties, 99; duties performed by deputy, 231 Coventry, Sir Thomas, Attorney-General, afterwards Lord Keeper, holds De Quester's appointment to be valid, 11; cajoles Stanhope into surrendering his patent, 23 Craggs, James, postmaster-general from 1715 to 1721. See Postmasters-General, Part III. Crichton, Doctor, refuses to pay ge_232" class="pginternal">232; received by the chief sorter on the occasion of royal birthdays, 233; on expresses, 233; on the registration of foreign letters, 233 Ferrers, Countess, 182 Fielding, Henry, his tribute to Ralph Allen, 186 "Fifth-clause" posts, 350-352 Firearms, worthless quality of those originally supplied to mail guards, 261 Fire of London, intelligence of, takes five days to reach Worthing, 34 Flemings, resort to London, where they introduce the manufacture of wool into cloth, 8; instance of value set upon cloth made in London, 8 note Flying coach, 63, 67 Flying packet, meaning of the term, 63 (108) Flying-post, 63 note Foreign bottoms, employment of, by the Post Office illegal, 98 Hume, David, 29 Hume, Joseph, 402 Hungerford selected to try the question of free delivery, 198; question decided in favour of the public and a letter-carrier appointed, 202, 293 Illicit conveyance of letters, between town and town and between the country and London, 54; is stimulated by increase in the rates of postage, 134, 141; becomes less after the introduction of mail-coaches, 227; prosecutions for, 333; return to the House of Commons, 422 Impressment, persons employed on the packets exempt from, 84; specimen of protection order, 84 note Instructions to the sorting office communicated by word of mouth, 324 Insurance an essential condition of Dockwra's penny post, 38; this condition abandoned, 188 Invoices to and from abroad exempt from postage until 1801, exemption then withdrawn, 331 Ipswich asserts its right to a free delivery, 198; right admitted and letter-carrier appointed, 202 Ireland, tardiness of post to, before 1635, 16; postage to, 18; method of Post Office business in 1690, 53; abuse of franking in 1773, 190; clerks at the castle surrender their franking privilege, 194; posts to and within Ireland improved, 195; Penny Post Office opened in Dublin, 196; the roof of the Dublin Post Office falls in, 207; the Irish Post Office separated from that of England, 221; effects of the separation in the case of correspondence by the Milford Haven and Waterford route, 249; between the Irish and English Post Offices differences in point of law, 366; and of practice, 367; office in Dublin styled British Mail Office, account of, 367; and improper use made of it, 371; Clancarty's energy and decision of character, 368; Lees, secretary to the Post Office in Ireland, his mode of conducting business, 369; Lees contrasted with Freeling, 370; the postmasters-general absentees, 370; absence also of the subordinates and other abuses, 371; the express clerks and clerks of the roads deal in newspapers and are given undue advantages, 371; account of the alphabet, 374; ingenious one in use at Belfast, 375; arrangement in favour of soldiers' wives, 374; peculiar mode of delivery at Belfast, 375; mail-coach contracts in Ireland different from those in England, 376; Charles Bianconi, 376; arrangement between Ireland and Great Britain in the matter of the packets, 378; Lees is dissatisfied with it, 380; and sets it aside, 381; 3, 6; are enjoined to see that horses are procured at the post-houses alone, 9 Maidstone, excellency of the delivery at, in the seventeenth century, 48; amount of the postmaster's salary, 50 Mails, hour of despatch of the, from the General Post Office in 1690, 47; after 1784, 220; cost of conveyance of, before and after the introduction of mail-coaches, 290; are exempt from toll in Great Britain but not in Ireland, 354; exemption withdrawn in Scotland, 359 Mail bags, curious instances of recovery of, 337 Mail-carts, mail-cart made of iron rifled of its contents, 290; first used in London to bring letters to the General Post Office, 316 Mail-coaches, begin to run, 213; rapid extension of the system, 214; system deprecated by some of the leading merchants, 220; their effect upon expresses, 214; upon the illicit conveyance of letters, 227; a mail-coach in attendance upon the King when at Cheltenham, 251; are put off the road by Palmer, 270; number of, in 1792, 281; model of mail-coach preserved at the Post Office, 282; mail-coaches of new pattern supplied, 283; number of passengers by, restricted, 283, 401; roof-loading, and objections to it, 287, 412; roof not always safe, 288; mileage allowance in the case of mail-coaches, 290; their freedom from attacks by highwaymen, 317; become liable to a duty of one penny a mile, 337; are diverted from the direct route for a consideration, 341; conditions of his own appointment, 228; his jealousy of Allen, 230; expedites the morning delivery in London, and introduces an improved method of business, 235; imposes upon Walsingham in the matter of the King's coach, 251; his treatment of official papers, 256; pays an unexpected visit to Walsingham at Old Windsor, 258; betrays his jealousy, 259; establishes, but without the necessary authority, a newspaper office, 261; and a mail guards' fund, 263; is called to account by Walsingham, 263; takes umbrage at a rebuke administered to his deputy, Bonnor, 265; disobeys orders, 266; becomes aggressive and defiant, 270; and appeals to Pitt, 272; is charged by Bonnor with promoting a public meeting antagonistic to the postmasters-general, 275; suspends Bonnor, 275; is suspended himself, 276; is dismissed, 279; receives a pension and, later on, a Parliamentary grant, 280; general result of his plan, 290 (299, 302, 353) Palmerston, Henry John, Viscount, his humorous reply to Freeling, 380 Parkin, Anthony, solicitor to the Post Office, 333 Parnell, Sir Henry, 407 Pascoe, John, boatswain of the Antelope packet, his gallant resistance to the attack of a privateer, 322 Patterns and samples, letters containing, and being less than one ounce in weight, whether to be charged single or double, 177; question tried at law, 178; settled by Act of Parliament, 179; concessions in favour of, 315 Pay. See Wages Pelham, Henry, countermands Newcastle's orders about the packets, 173 Pennant, Thomas, 261 Penny post, its introduction by Dockwra, 36; general plan of, 37; carries up to one pound in weight, 37; includes a system of insurance, 38; days on which it does not go, 39; increases number of country letters, 40; is absorbed into the General Post Office, 40; establishment of, in 1690, 45; stimulates the clandestine conveyance of letters into London, 54; on its acquisition by the State its general conditions remain unchanged, 67; number of penny post letters for the suburbs at the end of the seventeenth century, 69; its contemplated extension to Dublin in 1703, 69; affects the number of ship letters, 73; is without legal sanction, 119; legal sanction given, 128; entertain doubts as to its feasibility, 218; their differences between themselves, 221; their open rupture, 223; Tankerville is dismissed by Pitt, 224; his ungovernable temper, 225 Postmasters-General (VI.) [Carteret and Walsingham, 1787 to 1789], Walsingham's industry and thoroughness, 243; questions Carteret's right to sign first, 243; his preponderating influence, 244; his habit of annotating and execrable handwriting, 244, 263; reduces packet establishment at Falmouth, 246; is dissuaded from carrying out a similar reduction at Holyhead, 248; is powerless to control the correspondence by the Milford packets, 249; in conjunction with Carteret procures increase of salary for the clerks of the roads, 250; is imposed upon in the matter of the King's coach, 251; calls for the surveyors' journals, 255; his correspondence with Chalmers, 256; receives an unexpected visit from Palmer, 258; detects Palmer's jealousy and endeavours to allay it, 260; calls Palmer to account for acting without authority, 263; exposes Bonnor's attempt at deception, 265; Carteret's dismissal, 266; Walsingham inquires into the solicitor's accounts, 324 Postmasters-General (VII.) [Walsingham and Chesterfield, 1790 to 1794], Chesterfield's playful allusions to Palmer, 269; Palmer sets the postmasters-general at defiance, 270; they seek in vain an interview with Pitt, 273; unhandsome conduct of the road trustees, 359; roads discoached, 360 Search, powers of, refused by the House of Commons, 128 Sebright, Sir John, his letter accidentally opened, 333 Secretary of State, clerks in the office of, compensated for the loss of the newspaper privilege, 193 Secretary of the Post Office, appointment of, created in 1694, 70 Secret Office, 170, 269 Sharpus, postmaster of New York, 111 Sheffield, salary of postmaster in 1792, 293 Shelburne, William, Earl of, 212 Ship letters, origin of ship letter money, 73; by means of the penny post evade full postage, 73; number of, in 1686, 74; pence paid upon, without legal sanction, 119; legal sanction given, 128; ship letter office established, 328; rates on, increased and restrictions imposed, 361; restrictions modified, 362; made compulsory upon private ships to carry mails, 362 Ship news supplied by the Post Office to Lloyds, 218 Shipwrecked seamen pass free by packet, 85 Shrewsbury, curious reply to petition from, for earlier post, 218 Single letter, definition of, 139 Smart and bounty money, 85 Smuggling, on board the packets at Falmouth, 89, 238; at Harwich, 91, 237; at Dover, 103; in the Dover mail-coach, 271 Soldiers' wives, when travelling supplied with money through the medium of the Post Office, 374 Solicitor to the Post Office, appointment of, created in 1703, 70; an absentee and his duties performed by deputy, 231; his accounts inspected by Walsingham's direction, 324 Somerset, Protector, superscription of his letter to Lord Dacre, 20 Sorters, pay of, in 1690, 49 Southampton, salary of postmaster in 1792, 293 Speed of post in Queen Elizabeth's time, 4; in time of James the First, 6; at the end of the seventeenth century, 62; between London and Falmouth and London and Harwich, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, 83; under Allen's contract, 148; in 1765, 187; after 1784, 290; speed of Holyhead mail-coach before and after Telford's improvement of the road, 394; of mail-coaches generally in 1821 and 1836, 399, 426 Spencer, Lord Charles, postmaster-general from 1801 to 1806, 333 Spitalfields, a second penny improperly charged on penny post letters addressed to, 203 Sprange, James, postmaster of Tunbridge Wells, 408 Spring Rice, Thomas, Chancellor of the Exchequer, h-3.htm.html#Page_109" class="pginternal">109; resumed in 1745, 173; improved arrangements for disposing of the West Indian mails, 310 Westmorland, John, Earl of, postmaster-general from September 1789 to March 1790, 266 Weston, Henry, secretary to the Post Office, harsh treatment of, 152 Weston brothers, trial of, 290 Wetherall, Robert, master of ship Albinia, proceedings against, for refusing to take mails on board, 362 note Weymouth, constituted a packet station, 313 Whinnery, Thomas, postmaster of Belfast, his revolving "alphabet," 375; his mode of delivery, 375 Whitworth, Richard, 192 Wildman, Colonel John, postmaster-general from July 1689 to March 1690, 44 Willatt, Dame, postmistress of Manchester in 1792, 292; granted a pension, 301 Willes, Doctor, Dean of Lincoln, afterwards Bishop of St. Davids; the "chief Decypherer," 171 Willes, Mr. Justice, his judgment upon the question of free delivery, 200 William III., confers a pension upon Dockwra, 41; refuses to exempt postmasters from the quartering of soldiers, 51; |
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