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<STC T="G">506.h.10[37]</STC>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; Orders for the Po&s;ts of our Realmes, and for all men to ob|&s;erue and obey in the &s;peedy carriage of Packets, directed for our affaires.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas heretofore the Lordes of the Priuie Counfell to the Queene our Si&s;ter decea&s;ed, for great and weightie cau&s;es concerning the State, haue endeuoured to &s;et downe, and publi&s;h &s;undrie Orders, and generall directions for matters of Po&s;ting, e&s;pecially for the &s;peedie di&s;patch of Packets and Letters importing the Princes immediate affaires, the co|lour whereof &s;eruing priuate turnes, hath greatly fru&s;trated their en|deauours:</P>
<P>It is now therefore, for the better warranti&s;e and direction of our Po&s;ts, thought meet and conuenient, that the former Orders be reuiued, and (according to the nece&s;&s;itie of the times) renewed and publi&s;hed in our name in manner as followeth.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> Fir&s;t, euery Po&s;t receiuing a daily Fee, and entertained &s;pecially for the Packet, according to the proportion of his wages by the day, &s;hall keepe certaine Hor&s;es, to the number of two at the lea&s;t, with furniture conuenient, and tho&s;e alwayes to haue at hand in a readine&s;&s;e to runne with our Packets onely in Po&s;t, &s;o &s;oone as the &s;ame are brought to his hands. He &s;hall haue al&s;o two Bags of Leather at the lea&s;t well lined with Bayes or Cotton, to cary the Packet in, and Hornes to &s;ound and blow, as oft as he meets company, or foure times in euery mile.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> Euery Po&s;t thus furni&s;hed, &s;hall at all houres receiue and cary, or &s;end away, all Packets or Letters brought vnto him, directed for Our &s;peciall affaires, dated on the out&s;ide, with the time and place of their fir&s;t deliuery, and &s;ub&s;cribed by the hands of our Principall Secretaries, and Ma&s;ter and Comptroller generall of the Po&s;tes: And for matters of the Nauy, or to the Mari|time Forts vpon the Sea coa&s;t, or principal Port Townes, by our Admirall of England: For mat|ters of the Cinque Ports, by our Warden: For matters of Scotland, by our Trea&s;urer and Secre|tary of Scotland: And for Ireland, by our Lieutenant the L. <HI>Mountioy,</HI> Or addre&s;&s;ed to them in the proper bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of their places, or to the body of our Coun&s;ell, from what per&s;ons or places what&s;oeuer: Of who&s;e names, and addre&s;&s;e only, the Po&s;ts &s;hall take notice, according to the fir&s;t In&s;titution, and Originall v&s;e of their &s;eruice, and of none other.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> Euery Po&s;t &s;o receiuing our Packets, directed and &s;ub&s;cribed as aboue&s;aid, &s;hall within one quarter of an houre at the mo&s;t after they come to his hands, di&s;patch them away in Po&s;t, and &s;hal runne therewith in Sommer (that is, from the fir&s;t of Aprill to the la&s;t of September) after &s;euen Miles the houre: and in Winter (which &s;halbe e&s;teemed the re&s;t of the yeere) after fiue Miles the houre at the lea&s;t, as the wayes affoord, and the weather fall out.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4</HI> And that it may appeare from time to time (when, and as often as it &s;halbe required) with what care and diligence the &s;eruice is at all hands applyed and performed, Euery Po&s;t &s;hall keepe a large and faire leger Paper Booke to enter our Packets in, as they &s;hall be brought vnto him, with the day of the moneth, houre of the day or night, that they came fir&s;t to his hands, together with the name of him or them, by whome or vnto whom they were &s;ub&s;cribed and directed, taking and entring onely &s;uch for our Packets, as come warranted as afore&s;aid, and all others to pa&s;&s;e as By letters.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5</HI> La&s;tly, to the end that the Po&s;ts generally may the better attend their &s;euerall &s;eruices, and performe their duties in that behalfe, Our plea&s;ure is, that they and euery of them &s;hall brooke and enioy the benefite of all former fauours allowed them, namely, That they and their &s;eruants be holden free and exempted from all Pre&s;ts and attendantes at A&s;&s;i&s;es, Se&s;&s;ions, Inque&s;ts, and Mu&s;ters.</P>
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