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Post chaise between London and Bath

General-Post-Office, London, September 29, 1742
Raguin Code: NEWS –4204

POST CHAISES, between London and Bath.

This is to acquaint the Publick, that the several Post-masters on the Road between London and Bath, are ready to furnish any Gentlemen, or others, with Post-Chaises, safe, easy, and well secured from the Weather, with a Lamp to give sufficient Light in dark Nights, upon as short Warning as for Post Horses, any Hour either in the Day or Night. And farther Notice is hereby given, that whereas the Distance between Marlborough and Bath, has never yet been considered as Post Road, it will be computed at Thirty four Miles, according to Tompion's Measurement between those two Places. Gentlemen who have Occasion to go Post on the Bath Roads, are desired to apply to Mr. Miller, Post-master, at the White Bear in Piccadilly.

N. B. A Post Chaise may be had at any of the Stages on the Bath Road, to go Part, or all the Way, for one or more Stages, for those who do not chuse to travel in the Night.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.