Within Ireland. To or from any place within 40 miles } 2d. 4d. 8d. of Dublin } " " at a greater } 4d. 8d. 1s. distance } Foreign. To Leghorn, Genoa, Florence, Lyons, } Marseilles, Smyrna, Aleppo, and } 1s. 2s. 3s.9d. Constantinople } " Bordeaux, Rochelle, Nantes, Bayonne, } 9d. 1s.6d. 2s. Cadiz, and Madrid } " St. Malo, Morlaix, and Newhaven[2] 6d. 1s. 1s.6s. " Hamburgh, Frankfort, and Cologne 8d. 1s.4d. 2s. " Dantzic, Leipsic, Lubeck, Stockholm, } Copenhagen, Elsinore, } 1s. 2s. 4s. and Queenesbrough[3] } For every through post, or persons riding in post, 2-1/2d. the mile for each horse, besides the guide groat for every stage. All persons save the Postmaster-General or his deputies were forbidden to supply post horses on pain of a fine of £1000 a month--half to the Protector and half to the discoverer. Many other provisions are set down which need not be quoted here. Two months later, 27th August 1657, on a report from the Committee on the Postage, it was ordered that a lease be granted of the office of Postmaster-General to Thurloe, at a rent of £10,000, to be paid quarterly; "he to be at all charges, take no greater rates of postage than expressed in the Act, and send all Government letters free: the grant to be for as many years as His Highness thinks fit, not exceeding 11, or one life."