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<HEAD>Orders &s;et downe and allowed by the Lordes of her Maie&s;ties priuie coun&s;ell, and <HI>appoynted to be put in print for the Po&s;tes betweene London, and the borders of Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the fourteenth of Iannary. 1583.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOr the anoyding of &s;undry inconueniences happening by the ouergreat libertie of late v&s;ed in riding po&s;te, and for the ea&s;ing of diuers her Maie&s;ties good &s;ubiects, greatly complayning to haue bene thereby oppre&s;&s;ed, &amp; for &s;undrie other good con&s;iderations, the Lords of her Ma|ie&s;ties mo&s;t honourable priuie Coun&s;el, haue &s;et downe and e&s;tabli&s;hed the&s;e orders following, &s;traightly charging and commaunding in her Maie&s;ties name and behalfe, a&s;wel the Ma|&s;ter of the Po&s;tes, as all other Iu&s;tices of the peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Con&s;ta|bles, Headboroughes, and all other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to &s;ee the &s;ame duely ob&s;erued and kept in al places, as they and euery of them tender her Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, and at their perils wil an&s;were to the contrary.</P>
<P>Inprimis, if any man hauing the place &amp; name of an ordinary Po&s;te, &s;hall not re&s;ide and dwell vpon the &s;ame charge him&s;elfe in per&s;on, but execute the &s;ame by a Deputie, the Ma|&s;ter of the po&s;te &s;hall forthwith remoue him, and take order for the placing of a &s;ufficient man in his roome.</P>
<P>Item, that it &s;hall not be lawfull for any man ryding in po&s;t by commi&s;&s;ion, to take his <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> any man, but of the ordinarie and &s;tanding po&s;tes, or at their appointment: who&s;e commi&s;&s;ion ought to bee &s;ig|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span">xt by her Maie&s;tie, three of her highne&s;&s;e coun&s;el, the Lorde Trea&s;urour of England, the Earle Mar&s;hall of Eng|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">nde Lord gouernour of Barwicke or his deputie, the Lord pre&s;ident of the North or his deputie, the Wardens of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> marches, her Maie&s;ties Secritarie, &amp; the ma&s;ter of the Po&s;tes.</P>
<P>Item that euery one &s;o ryding po&s;te by commi&s;&s;ion for her Maie&s;ties &s;eruice and affaires, &s;hal pay one pennie, halfe <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> the mile, but who&s;eouer vpon any bu&s;ines vrgent &s;hal be occa&s;ioned to ryde in po&s;te without comi&s;&s;ion, he &s;halbe like|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4+ letters">&s;ed by the &s;tanding po&s;te of the place or by his appointment. And of euery &s;uch, for their reliefe, it &s;halbe lawfull for <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> to take after the rate of two pence the myle.</P>
<P>Item, to this ende, euery po&s;t &s;hall be bounde to keepe a faire paper booke wel bound, to regi&s;ter the names of all men <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="5 letters">g in po&s;t, with the number of their hor&s;es, and date of the commi&s;&s;ion, as well without commi&s;&s;ion as with commi&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="3 letters">.</P>
<P>Item, if in ca&s;e that currers &s;hall come &s;o thicke or in &s;uch number, that the po&s;tes owne furniture &s;hall not bee able to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> then it &s;hall be lawfull for him to take vp, or appoint &s;uch as haue hor&s;es to hire, to &s;upply his want: And to this end <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> be a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the Maiors, Con&s;tables, &amp; other officers, taking in tho&s;e ca&s;es for the hire of tho&s;e hor&s;es, as the po&s;tes <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> are wont to doe for their owne.</P>
<P>Item, that no man riding in po&s;te, &s;hall ride without a guide which &s;hall blowe his horne, &s;o oft as he meeteth compa|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;eth through any towne, or at the lea&s;t thri&s;e euery mile.</P>
<P>Item, that all her Maie&s;ties po&s;tes may the better attende vpon their charges and offices, and faithfully performe the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;eruice thereto belonging, her Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that they be exempted from all attendance at a&s;&s;i&s;es, &s;e&s;&s;ions, en|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4+ letters"> and mu&s;ters.</P>
<P>Item that no packets or letters &s;hall be &s;ufficient warrant or authoritie to con&s;traine the po&s;tes to runne with them <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> except they be directed for her Maie&s;ties affayres, and &s;hal be &s;igned either by her Maie&s;tie, her priuie Coun&s;ell, or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> per&s;onages authori&s;ed and aboue named.</P>
<P>Item that euery po&s;te doe dayly ob&s;erue the orders &s;ometimes &s;et downe by her Maie&s;ties coun&s;ell for expedition of let|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> her Maie&s;ties affaires, viz. that they ride in &s;ommer, accounting from the Annunciation of our Ladie to the fea&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 words"> Michael the Archangell, &s;euen miles the houre, and in the winter, which is the re&s;t of the yeere, fiue miles the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> the way &s;hall fall out, whereby the po&s;tes doing their dueties, the packet may be caried in &s;ommer betweene Lon|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> Barwicke in fortie two houres, and in winter in three&s;core.</P>
<P>La<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">tly it is hereby co~maunded, that from henceforth, if any hackney man, O&s;tlers, Tap&s;ters or others, &s;hall contrary to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> directly or indirectly cary packets, or &s;erue any hor&s;es with a guid or a horne, without the con&s;ent and priuity of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="5 letters">ary Po&s;t of the place, that then the Officer of Officers of the place, or the next Iu&s;tice of the peace &s;hal commit the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">r&s;on or per&s;ons to pri&s;on, there to abide vntil they haue put in &s;ufficient bond and &s;urety vnto the &s;ayd Po&s;te, for the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> and ob&s;eriung of the&s;e orders in time to come.</P>
<P>A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters"> which afore&s;aid orders, her Maie&s;ty &s;traightly chargeth &amp; commaundeth all Iu&s;tices of the peace, Maiors, Shi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4+ letters">Bay<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">iffes, Con&s;tables, Head boroughs, and al other her Officers and Seruantes, to &s;ee ob&s;erued, as farre as in them <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span"> and to be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto her &s;ayde ordinary Po&s;tes for the due execution of the &s;ame, as tender her <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4 letters">&s;ties &s;eruice, and at their perilles will aun&s;were to the contrary.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, becau&s;e that through the ouer great liberty of riding in po&s;te, many inconueniences fall out, through the hack|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="6+ letters"> in kent, it &s;halbe lawull for the L. Warden of y^e cinque portes, and the May&s;ter of the Po&s;tes, to take order with <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tes betwene London and Douer in that behalfe.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene,<LB>
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<ITEM>T. Bromley. Canc.</ITEM>
<ITEM>W. Burghley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. Lyncoln.</ITEM>
<ITEM>F. Bedford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>R. Leyce&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>C. Howard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>H. Hunsdon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>F. Knoles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>C. Hatton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>F. Wal&s;yngham.</ITEM>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Chri&s;topher Barker, Printer to the Queenes <HI>most excellent Maiestie.</HI></P>
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