London and Globe Telephone Company, 220. London District Post, 71. London District Telegraph Company, 202. London Penny Post, 28-30, 34, 35 note, 51, 52; receipts from, 185. _See_ Twopenny post. Mail coaches, 40, 41, 55, 104, 105. Manley, John, 22, 23. Marconi Company, 213, 214. Mason, Sir John, 7, 8. Merchant Adventurers' Post, 6, 11. Messengers, 3, 5, 67. Money Order Office, 50, 71. Money orders, 176-180; number of, 71-73. _See also_ Rates, money orders. Monopoly, attempts to break, 191-197; in carriage of letters and packets, 189-191, 195, 196. _See also_ Telegraphs, monopoly. Mowatt, Sir F., 81. National Telephone Company, 222-224, 229, 231, 233. Neale, Thomas, 33. Newspaper Office, 49. Newspapers, chargeable and free, 68; franking of, 48; impressed stamps on, 68; number of, 68. _See also_ Rates, newspapers. New Telephone Company, 223. Norfolk, Duke of, 82. O'Neale, Daniel, 25. Opening and detaining letters, 16, 18, 21, 26, 46-48, 196. Packet list, 48. Packets. _See_ Sailing Packets. Paget, 7. Palmer, John, 40-42, 44. Parcel Post, 70, 174. _See also_ Rates, Parcel Post. Patronage, 78, 79. Pattern and Sample Post, 69. _See also_ Rates, patterns. Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, 132. Penny Post. _See_ London Penny Post. Penny Postage, 59-62, 158-160. Pensions, sailors', 127. Pitt, William, 43. Plague, 26. Political patronage. _See_ Patronage. Postal establishment, in seventeenth century, 27; in eighteenth, 38, 44; in nineteenth, 57. Postcards, 174; number of, 69, 69 note; use of, 69. _See also_ Rates, postcards. Post coaches, 40. Post horses, 5, 8; fee for their use, 89, 90, 92; licences and taxes, 94, 95, 95 note; monopoly in letting, 92, 94; number to be kept, 92, 93; supply of, 89, 90. Postmarks, 29. Postmen's Federation, 85 note. Post offices, number of, 71. Post-roads, 13; cross posts, 103; in sixteenth century, 97, 101; in seventeenth century, 99; maps, 101; re-measured, 103, 104; in north of England, 102, 104; in south, 102; in Ireland, 102, 104; in Scotland, 103. Prepayment of rates; compulsory prepayment inadvisable, 26, 26 note; unpopularity of, 64. Prideaux, Edmund, 18-21, 136. Raikes, 81. Railways, 107, 108; amounts paid for conveyance of mails, 56, 78; authority of Postmaster-General over, 77; principles involved in estimating tollage for conveyance of mails, 77. Randolph, Thomas, 7, 8. Rates, for letters, 13, 23, 62-64; by weight, 157; re-directed, 173; ships' letters, 143, 148, 153. In England, 136, 137, 141, 142, 145-148, 150, 151, 158; Ireland, 136, 137, 141, 142, 146, 151, 152, 158; Scotland, 136-139, 141-143, 145-148, 150, 151, 158; United Kingdom, 159, 172, 174.