The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical StudySmith, A. D. (Alfred Daniel)
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The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study
Smith, A. D. (Alfred Daniel)
Postal rates
The several Rates that now are and have been taken for the Carriage of
Letters, Pacquets, and Parcels, to or from any of His Majesties
Dominions, to or from any other parts or places beyond the Seas, are as
followeth, that is to say,
s. d.
Morlaix, St. Maloes, Caen, Newhaven, and places of like {Single 0 6
distance, Carriage paid to Rouen {Double 1 0
{Treble 1 6
{Ounce 1 6
Hamburgh, Colen, Frankfort, Carriage paid to Antwerp, is {Single 0 8
{Double 1 4
{Treble 2 0
{Ounce 2 0
Venice, Geneva, Legorn, Rome, Naples, Messina, and all {Single 0 9
otherparts of Italy by way of Venice, Franct pro Mantua {Double 1 6
{Treble 2 3
{Ounce 2 8
Marseilles, Smirna, Constantinople, Aleppo, and all parts {Single 1 0
of Turky, Carriage paid to Marseilles {Double 2 0
{3/4 Ounce 2 9
{Ounce 2 8
And for Letters brought from the same places to England {Single 0 8
{Double 1 4
{Treble 2 0
{Ounce 2 0
The Carriage of Letters brought into England, from Calice, {Single 0 4
Diep, Bulloign, Abbeville, Amiens, St. Omers, Montrel {Double 0 8
{Treble 1 0
{Ounce 1 0
Rouen {Single 0 6
{Double 1 0
{Treble 1 6
{Ounce 1 6
Genoua, Legorn, Rome, and other parts of Italy by way of {Single 1 0
Lyons, Franct pro Lyons {Double 2 0
{3/4 Ounce 2 9
{Ounce 3 9
The Carriage of Letters Outwards--
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