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A39875 For information to all people where to deliver their letters by the penny post the following list is an account of the several houses within the city and liberty of Westminster to Temple-Bar without, and some adjacent parts, appointed by the undertakers for receiving letters and pacquets under a pound weight, to be conveyed to all or any part of the said city : as also of London, and all the weekly bills of mortality. 1680 (1680) Wing F1429; ESTC R34853 1,494 1

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For Information to all People where to Deliver their LETTERS By the Penny Post The following LIST is an Account of the several Houses within the City and Liberty of WESTMINSTER to TEMPLE-BAR Without And some other Adjacent Parts appointed by the Undertakers for Receiving Letters and Pacquets under a Pound Weight to be Conveyed to all or any part of the said City As also of LONDON and all the Parishes within the Weekly Bills of Mortality Streets and Places Albemarle house Edward Smith at the Poet 's Head Victualler Bloomsbury William Laithwait at the Half Moon near the Market Grocer Gray 's Coffee-house in Silver-street Bowling-Alley John Gravenor at the Sugar Loaf and Tobacco Role Bow-street John Haynes a Tynnman over against Will 's Coffee-house Burleigh Street Prestons Coffee-house Charing Cross Royal Highness Coffee-house St. Clem. Backside John Dyer at the 3 Crowns Hosier Compton Street Henry Golding at the Scotch Arms Bricklayer Drewry Lane Nathaniel Chandler at White-hart Corner Cheesmonger Drewry Lane by Russel Street End Duke Street Samuel Spike at the Bell Oylman Durham Yard John Mooring at the Three Blackymoors Heads Cane-shop Essex Buildings Thomas Orrell Bookseller Exeter Change Hunts Coffee-house Exeter Street Richard Atkins a Barber against the Red Cow Horse Ferry Westminster John Thompson at White Hart Inne James 's Street Patrick Cox Corner of Long-Acre Strong Water-shop St. Jameses Stroud 's Coffee-house St. James 's Market Daniel Elliot Scrivenor King Street Andrew Forester near the Miter Tavern Bookseller Nath. Knowles at the Three Squirrels Salesman King Street Covent Garden The Christian Coffee-House by Bedford-bury Kings-Gate Holbourn Lambeth William Smith at the Crown by the Bridge Victualler St. Martins Lane William Billingsley at the Bull Head Pattin Maker Middle Change Rowland Reynolds Stationer St. Giles Middle Row William Fernhead Cheesmonger at the Milkmaid New Chappel in Pettit France Robert Dance at the Star and Crown Newport Street John Harding at the Anchor and Bible Stationer Old Gate ho●se Pall Mall William Nott at the King and Queens Arms Stationer Panton Street Stephen Pearse Barber by Leicester Fields Peter Street John Googe at the Two Brewers Chandler Pickadilly Richard Tomkins Salesman at the Blew Ball. Pickadilly by Secret Coventrey's Elizabeth Barnes at the Three Stills a Distiller Prince Street by Drewry Lane John Coppinger Distiller Great Queen Street Thomas Bourn near Drewry-Lane Barber Round Court John Allison Shoemaker Shandois Street Tho. Barter Bodies-maker near St. Martins Lane Strand Charles Ledsam against Northumberland-house Stationer Duke 's Coffee-house near Hungerford House Charles Blunt in York Buildings Bookseller Strand Bridge Thomas Aylway at the Crown andVnicorn Stationer Suffolk Street By Alms-houses Thomas Bant Distiller Thieving Lane by St. Margar. Ch. Thomas Weakly at the Pestle and Mortar Grocer Vere Street William Halsted at the Long Bow Coffee-house Whitehall Arch Hercules Rookes Milliner Westminster Elizabeth Naylor at the Hall Gate Stationer William Hensman in the Hall Bookseller Wiche Street Anthony Dewey a Joyner Windmill-Street in So Ho John Jennings against the Butchers Arms Chandler ☞ For as much as that advantageous Design of the Penny Post Letters is not throughly understood 't is thought convenient to give this following Account THe Vndertakers will receive all Letters at their several Receiving Houses from 7 in the morning till 9 at night but not after unless the next morning will serve turn for their delivery That Letters to most of the remote parts within their undertaking shall be delivered within three hours after the receipt and in less than half the time to places nearer at hand And for the better Information to all Persons willing to receive the great benefit of this Vndertaking there are Alphabetical Tables printing which they intend to disperse containing all the Receiving Houses within the Bills of Mortality and they hope all Ingenuous Persons will duly consider that beginnings are difficult and therefore will for the present favourably interpret small failures in the delay of some Messengers who are not yet so well vers'd as a short time may demonstrate by this Design being brought to perfection all persons whom they imploy being to give the Vndertakers security to answer defaults And no Letters but have come safe to hand except three or four that are directed to persons that cannot be found There is also other Lists of Receiving Houses printed for most parts of the City of London and Suburbs c. and dispersed in their proper places for Direction to all Persons where to leave their Letters with One Penny