The difficulty in Queen Elizabeth's time of communicating with persons at a distance from Bristol before the establishment of a post office is illustrated by the following item from the City Chamberlain's accounts:-"1580, August. Paid to Savage, the foot post, to go to Wellington with a letter to the Recorder touching the holding of the Sessions, and if not there to go to Wimborne Minster, where he has a house, where he found him, and returned with a letter, which post was six days upon that journey in very foul weather, and I paid him for his pains 13s. 4d.
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ISBN | 9781006668784 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Blurb |
Jahr | 20211115 |
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