The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
CHAPTER VI
Posts regarded as Vehicles for the Propagation of Treason--Wildman-- Cotton and Frankland--Post Office Establishment--Revenue--Building in Lombard Street--Dispersion of Letters--Salaries and Wages--Newspapers-- Drink and Feast Money--Post-horses--Quartering of Soldiers-- Postmasters' Emoluments--Scotland--Ireland--Bye-letters--Illicit Traffic--Treasury Control--Post Offices grouped together and let out to farm--Stephen Bigg--Expresses--Flying Packets--State of the Roads-- Progress of the Penny Post--Appointment of Secretary and Solicitor-- Purchase of Premises in Lombard Street 43