Cross Roads opened in various places

All Persons are desired to take Notice, that the Cross-Road Letters from Bath, Bristol, Exeter, &c. which did usually lie two Days at Gloucester in their Way to South-Wales, are now sent into all Parts of that Country, without any Loss of Time; the same Advantage is gained three times a Week at Kidderminster, for the Benefit of the Traders of Stourbridge and Birmingham; and as often at Chester for those of Lancashire. There is likewise such Regulations made in the Dispatch of the Bye-Post between Chester and York, that a Letter sent from North-Wales, Cheshire, or Lancashire, into Yorkshire, or any other of the Northern Countries, may now be answered four Days sooner than it ever was before; and to prevent all further Impositions upon the Country, it is thought necessary to give this publick Notice, that the Postage of all Bye-Way, or Cross-Road Letters, is no more than three Pence to any Place under fourscore Miles, and four Pence to any Place above fourscore Miles for a single Letter, and so in Proportion for others passing to and from any Place within His Majesty's Dominions of England and Wales; and further, that all Bye-Way and Cross-Road Letters are to be paid for at the Places where they are delivered, Ship-Letters excepted, and not where they are put in, unless the Parties who put them in desires it. All manner of Persons that have been any ways concerned in the fraudulent collecting, carrying or delivering of Letters, contrary to the Act of Parliament, are, for their own sakes, desired to put an immediate Stop to those illegal Practices, or to expect the Consequences of a vigorous Prosecution.

H. MARSHALL, Secretary.