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Improvement of correspondence. List of new conveyances

General Post Office, September 20, 1755
Raguin Code: NEWS –5503

His Majesty's Postmaster General, for the further Improvement of Correspondence, having been pleased to order, That Letters shall for the future be conveyed, Six Days in every Week, instead of three Days as at present, betwixt London and Wobourn, Newport Pagnell, Northampton, Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, and Nottingham, through Hertford, on the three additional Post Days.

And likewise betwixt London and Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Stone, Namptwich, Chester, Middlewich, Northwich, Warrington, Liverpool, and Manchester, through Oxford, Worcester, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, on the three additional Days.

And to order the Letters to be conveyed three Days a Week (instead of two Days, as at present) betwixt London and Aimesbury.

Also to quicken the Communication by Post, betwixt Sheffield and the great North Road, through Doncaster, And the Correspondence between Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Chester, Gloucester, South Wales, Bristol, and the whole Cross Road: As well as between Liverpool, Manchester, Wiggan, Preston, Lancaster, Kendal, and all Parts of Westmoreland and Cumberland. And between Liverpool, and all Parts of Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Scotland, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk.

Publick Notice is hereby given, that these several additional Conveyances, Improvements, and Regulations, will take Place from Friday the 10th Day of October next, being Michaelmas Day according to the Old Style.

And whereas great Numbers of Letters have hitherto been privately collected and delivered, as well in these as in other Parts of the Kingdom, contrary to Law, to the great Prejudice of the Revenue of the Post Office, Notice is likewise hereby given, that all Carriers, Coachmen, Watermen, Wherrymen, Dispersers of Country News Papers, and all other Persons whatsoever, hereafter detected in the illegal collecting, conveying or delivering of Letters, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity.

N. B. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every Letter collected or delivered contrary to Law, and One Hundred Pounds for every Week this Practice is continued.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.