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Penny Post. List of Coffee Houses open to accept letters

December 18-22, 1684
Raguin Code: NEWS *8408

Whereas in several Books lately published, the Authors have presumed to set forth the Methods of the Penny-Post without Consulting the proper Officers, by which means they are mistaken in several particulars, whereof this is fit to be Corrected, (viz.) that three days at Christmas, two days at Easter, and Whitsuntide, and on the 30th of January the Penny-Post does not go, Although since it was Established by Authority no Holy-days have ever been kept, but the usual Expedition has been performed for conveying Letters, &c. both in the Country Towns, and City, and frequent Advertisements thereof have been given in the Gazette, with advice that such Persons who write on those days should leave their Letters, &c. at the Coffee Houses, and such Shops that are then open, or at the General Offices, which are Six, and kept for the several Precincts at the places following (viz.) The principal Office in Crosby-House in Bishopsgate Street, That for St. Pauls at the Royal Bagnio Coffee House in Newgate Street, That for the Temple in Chichesters Rents in Chancery Lane, That for Westminster in Chequer Court near Charing Cross, That for Southwark in the new Buildings in Fowlane near the Borough, That for Ratcliffe and the Hermitage upon Little Tower Hill, where the Officers attend all days alike from Seven a Clock in the Morning, until Ten at Night, Sundays only excepted.