Ralph Allen. Grant of a farm of all the Bye Way or Cross Road letters in England and Wales

The Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis and the Honourable James Craggs, Esq.; His Majesty's Postmaster General, by the Advice, Consent and Direction of the Right Honourable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and with the Approbation of the Right Honourable Nicholas Lechmere, Esq; His Majesty's Attorney-General, having granted to Ralph Allen of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Gent. a Farm of all the Bye-Way or Cross-Road Letters throughout England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and being determined, for the further Improvement of His Majesty's Revenue, and for the Benefit and Advantage of the Nation, to Establish a more regular and better Method for the safer Conveyance of these Letters; all Persons are desired to take special Notice, that after the 24th Day of June next ensuing, the Postage of no Bye-Way or Cross Road Letters is any where to be demanded at the Places they are sent from [upon any Pretence whatsoever] unless they are directed on board of a Ship, and that the same Care and Method will, for the future, be every where taken, in the safe and speedy Conveyance of them, as is at present made Use of in the Management of the London Letters.

HENRY MARSHALL, Secretary.