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Read Ebook: The Grey Woman and other Tales by Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn
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Patent granted to Witherings for Foreign Letter Office 91
Stanhope's place granted to Secretaries Coke and Windebank 92
Witherings appointed their Deputy--Claim to Stanhope's late office by Endymion Porter 93
Servile language of the period 96
William Lake applies for some benefit in the Post Office 100
Deputy Postmaster of the Court 101
Scale of wages allowed to deputy postmasters 104
Direct courses of old roads 107
New regulations for the posts, July 1637 108
The king's troubles in Scotland 121
Women oppose the introduction of the Service-Book 122
Plague at Hull, 1637 125
Method of disinfecting letters 126
The Secretaries consider as to the removal of Witherings--Reasons for proposed removal 127
Troubles with public carriers--Carriers contend for their right to convey letters 129
They are supported by the Norwich merchants 131
Concessions made to the carriers 133
Jason Grover, carrier, imprisoned 135
Proclamation settling Witherings' office 138
Complaints made by postmasters 140
Demands for horses 145
Complaints against postmasters made by the public 146
Traffic in postmasterships 153
More petitions from postmasters 155
Witherings quarrels 156
Difficulty with the Earl of Northumberland 158
Sickness of Witherings and his reported death--Philip Burlamachi applies for Witherings' office 161
Divisions in the kingdom 163
Proposed opening of post letters 164
Burlamachi's services to the King's party 165
Fight for the possession of a post letter 166
A proposed duel over the seizing of post horses 169
Packet boat employed between Whitehaven and Dublin--Witherings' office sequestered 173
Attacks upon Witherings 175
Nature of charges made against him 177
The Secretaries of State try to undo Witherings--Witherings imprisoned--Assigns an interest in his place to the Earl of Warwick 179
Committee of the House of Commons to consider question of the Posts--Deliverance in favour of Witherings as regards the Foreign Letter Office 181
Deliverance respecting the Inland Posts 182
Decision against Witherings, Coke, and Windebank, in regard to imprisonment of carriers 183
Rough treatment of Witherings 185
Earl of Warwick urges ejection of Burlamachi 186
Inland Letter Office to be delivered to Earl of Warwick 187
Burlamachi required to produce accounts 188
Mails to be seized and delivered to the Earl of Warwick 189
Burlamachi imprisoned--He produces accounts 190
Foreign Letter Office remains with Witherings, the Inland Letter Office with the Earl of Warwick 191
James Hickes, clerk in the Foreign Letter Office--Goes over to the King at Oxford 192
King Charles sets up an independent system of Posts 193
Imprisonment of Hickes 195
Witherings assessed by Committee for Advance of Money 196
Earl of Warwick removed from the Post Office, and Mr. Prideaux ordered to settle post stages 197
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