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Post Office Grants Ralph Allen a Nationwide Letter Farm
General Post Office announces a royal grant to Ralph Allen of Bath for a nationwide farm of all bye way and cross road letters to improve safety and conveyance. Notices warn against demantling routes after a near date and outline postmaster general directives, with ads for tonics, cures, and auctions, plus local notices of horses races and apartments for let.
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London
Charles Lord Cornwallis
Fames Craggs
Treasury
Nich. Lechmere
Somerset
England
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
George Davis
Elias Turner
Gerge Caswail
George Cronke
Rochester
F.turner
G. Calwail
C Mp
Persoo
George Davs
George Crooke
Turner Cawail
Davis
Crooke
Merleurs
Turner
Caswall
Stanford Plain
Farringdon
Berks
Bowling-Green House
Stanford Plains
Stanford
Faringdon
Galloway
Farngdon
Great
Yorkshire Road
Eyre
New Exchange