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id: A71298
author: Warburton, George.
date: 1683.0
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words: 1014
sentence: 48
flesch: 65
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title:
  These are to give notice, that from the 25th of this instant June, the post will pass thrice a week betwixt England and Ireland, and in like manner betwixt Dublin and the several post-stages in the country

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A71298) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43225)


id: A94393
author: Oxenbridge, Clement.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 942
sentence: 37
flesch: 58
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title:
  To all ingenuous people a second intimation from the New Undertakers for conveyance of letters at half the rates to severall parts of England and Scotland.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94393 of text R211688 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[95]). To all ingenuous people a second intimation from the New Undertakers for conveyance of letters at half the rates to severall parts of England and Scotland.


id: A26433
author: England and Wales. Post Office.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1260
sentence: 49
flesch: 59
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title:
  An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against the Government, have dispersed in coffee-houses, and other publick places of meeting, divers most infamous scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office; ...

summary:
  An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against the Government, have dispersed in coffee-houses, and other publick places of meeting, divers most infamous scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office; ... England and Wales. An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against the Government, have dispersed in coffee-houses, and other publick places of meeting, divers most infamous scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office; ... England and Wales.


id: A22190
author: England and Wales.
title: Letters to restraine carrying packets by shippers, &c.
date: 1618.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1275
sentence: 52
flesch: 62
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txt: txt/A22190.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A22190) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 23830)


id: A94606
author: England and Wales. Council of State.
date: 1653.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1199
sentence: 65
flesch: 68
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title:
  To the Right Honorable, the Councel of State And to the Honorable Committee, by them appointed in the case of the post-masters. The humble petition of the post-masters of the several roads of England.

summary:
  THe Councel having Read the Petition of the Post-masters of the several Roads of England , and other Papers presented , and taken into Consideration how Requisite it is for the better carrying on , and mannagement of the Affairs of the Common-Wealth , and especially necessary in the present state of Things , That the In-land Post should be in a settled Condition and a posture of Readiness to Expedite it , and give Dispatch unto the Mayles of Letters and other Missives of Publick Concernment the Nature of which , doth frequently Require the Speediest Conveyance that is possible ; and finding the due settling and executing of this Office to be of such Consequence and Concernment to the Service of the Common-Wealth , as doth Require the special Care and inspection of the State thereunto , and a fit Person in whom they can Confide , for the Execution thereof they have thought fit to Recommend and intrust the Mannagement of it unto you : These are therefore to Authorize and Require you , To Receive and take upon you the Charge and Care thereof , and to Transact and Execute the same according to such Orders as have been formerly made by the Councel on that behalf : And for the better Enabling of you to effect and perform the same according to the Trust reposed in you , all Officers , both Civil and Military , are hereby Required to be Aiding and Assisting unto you , or such Post-Masters or Agents as shall be imployed under you in the said Post-Office upon all Occasion , wherein the Execution of the same may be the better furthered and expedited . Francis Pyke , postmaster at Crewkern .


id: A79320
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: By the King. A proclamation, for quieting the Post-Master-General in the execution of his office.
date: 1661.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1506
sentence: 51
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A26429
author: England and Wales. Post Office.
title: An advertisement from the General Penny-Post-Office
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1569
sentence: 65
flesch: 62
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summary:
  WHEREAS by an Order from the Post-Master General , bearing Date the 11 th of March , 1684 / 5 ; , all Carriers , Stage-Coaches , Higlers , and Drivers of Pack-Horses , are forbidden to Carry , or Re-carry any Letter , or Pacquets of Letters , except what concerns their Packs , upon the Penalties therein exprest ; Therefore for the better Accommodation of all persons in their Correspondency , there are Foot-Posts setled for the Collecting and Delivering of all Letters , as well for the General Post-Office as others , to these Towns round London , brancht out from the Six Offices ; as followeth ; Viz. A26429) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 64589)


id: A26431
author: England and Wales. Post Office.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1692
sentence: 93
flesch: 74
summary: Cop●●hagen . From whence the Country-Letters a●● conveyed .
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title:
  An advertisement from the Penny-Post-Office The names of the places of the six offices, from whence the country [illegible]


id: A64158
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3193
sentence: 278
flesch: 87
summary: S●…ford in Ch●…ire at the Ax in Aldermanbury . A F●…-post from ●…rk to the Rose and Crown in S●… .
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title:
  A brief director for those that would send their letters to any parts of England, Scotlaud, or Ireland. Or A list of all the carriers, waggoners coaches, posts, ships, barks, hoys, and passage-boats, that come to London, from the most parts and places, by land & sea Alphabetically printed, so that none may pretend ignorance, who would gladly send, but know not where to carry their letters. With the dayes when they come, and when they return. And also to send letters to the most habitable parts of the world, and to have an answer.


id: A36219
author: Dockwra, William, d. 1716.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3923
sentence: 104
flesch: 52
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title:
  The practical method of the penny-post being a sheet very necessary for all persons to have by them ... : With an explaination [sic] of the following stamps for the marking of all letters.

summary:
  And since the Carriage of Town Letters doth not near Answer the necessary Charge required to support this Undertaking , the Undertakers do hope , that all Persons will so far Contribute to the Continuance of this Useful Design , as to send all their Post-Letters by this Conveyance , to the Post-House in Lumbard-street , which they do not Convey thither by Themselves or Servants , but if any Post-Letters be left without Money , that should pay before-hand , they must of necessity be Returned to the Office , and such as do send Money , are desired to Endorse the Postage Money upon their Letters . On all Post Nights , due Care is taken to call for , and Convey to the General Post-House in Lumbard-street , all Post-Letters , whether Foreign or Inland , left at any of the Penny-Post Receiving-Houses , at or before Nine of the Clock at Night .


id: A82435
author: England and Wales. Parliament.
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words: 30712
sentence: 870
flesch: 55
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title:
  Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660 In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

summary:
  May it therefore please your Maiesty that it may be Enacted , And be it Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament , That the said Oliver Cromwell deceased , Henry Ireton deceased , John Bradshaw deceased , and Thomas Pride deceased , shall by vertue of this Act , be adjudged to be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason , to all intents and purposes , as if they , and every of them respectively had been Attainted in their lives : And also that John Lisle , William Say , Valentine Wauton , Edward Whally , John Barkstead , Edmond Ludlow , sir Michael Livesey , John Okey , John Hewson , william Goffe , Cornelius Holland , Thomas Challoner , William Cawley , Miles Corbet , Nicholas Love , John Dixwell , Daniel Blagrave , Andrew Broughton , Edward Dendy , and every of them , stand and be adjudged , and by Authority of this present Act Convicted and Attainted of High Treason ; And that all and every the Mannors , Messnages , Lands , Tenements , Rents , Reversions , Remainders , Possessions , Rights , Conditions , Interests , Offices , Fees , Annuities , and all other the Hereditaments , Leases for years , Chattels real , and other things of that nature , whatsoever they be , of them the said Oliver Cromwell , Henry Ireton , John Bradshaw , Thomas Pride , John Lisle , William Say , Valentine W●uton , Edward Whally , John Barkstead , Edmond Ludlow , sir Michael Livesey , John Okey , John Hewson , William Goffe , Cornelius Holland , Thomas Challoner , William Cawly , Miles Corbet , Nicholas Love , John Dixwell , Daniel Blagrave , Andrew Broughton , Edward Dendy , Thomas Harrison , Adrian Scroop , John Carew , John Jones , Thomas Scot , Gregory Clement , Hugh Peters , Francis Hacker , Iohn Cook , Daniel Axtell , sir Hardress Waller , William Heveningham , Isaac Pennington , Henry Martin , Gilbert Millington , Robert Tichborne , Owen Rowe , Robert Lilborne , Henry Smith , Edmond Harvy , Iohn Downs ▪ Vincent Potter , Augustine Garland , George Fleetwood , Simon Meyne , Iames Temple , Peter Temple , Thomas Wayte , which they , or any of them , or any other person or persons , to their or any of their uses , or in trust for them , or any of them , had the Five and twentieth day of March , in the year of our Lord , One thousand six hundred forty and six , or at any time since , shall stand and be forfeited unto Your Majesty , Your Heirs and Successors , and shall be deemed , vested , and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of Your Majesty , without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found : And also , That all and every the Goods , Debts , and other the Chattels personal whatsoever , of them the said Oliver Cromwell , Henry Ireton , Iohn Bradshaw , Thomas Pride , whereof at the time of their respective deaths , they , or any of them , or any other in trust for them or any of them , stood possessed in Law or Equity , and all the Goods , Debts , and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Iohn Lisle , William Say , Valentine Wauton , Edward Whalley , John Barkstead , Edmond Ludlow , Sir Michael Livesey , John Okey , John Hewson , William Goffe , Cornelius Holland , Thomas Challoner , William Cawly , Miles Corbet , Nicholas Love , John Dixwell , Andrew Broughton , Edward Dendy , Thomas Harrison , Adrian Scroope , John Carew , John Jones , Thomas Scot , Gregory Clement , Hugh Peters , Francis Hacker , Iohn Cook , Daniel Axtell , sir Hardress Waller , William Heveningham , Isaac Pennington , Henry Martin , Gilbert Millington , Robert Tichborne , Owen Rowe , Robert Lilborne , Henry Smith , Edmond Harvy , Iohn Downs , Vincent Potter , Augustine Garland , George Fleetwood , Simon Meyne , Iames Temple , Peter Temple , Thomas Wayte , whereof upon the Eleventh day of February , One thousand six hundred fifty nine , they or any of them , or any other in Trust for them or any of them , stood possessed either in Law or Equity , shall be deemed and adjudged to be forfeited unto , and are hereby vested , and put into the actual and real possession of Your Majesty , without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found . An act for the better ordering the selling of wines by retail -- An act for the levying of the arrears of the twelve moneths assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659, and the six moneths assessment commencing the 25 of December 1659 -- An act for granting unto the Kings Majesty, four hundred and twenty thousand pounds, by an assessment of threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth, for six moneths, for disbanding the remainder of the army and paying off the navy -- An act for further supplying and explaining certain defects in an act intituled An act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the forces of this kingdom -- An act for the raising of seventy thousand pounds for the further supply of his Majesty -- An act for the attainder of several persons guilty of the horrid murther of his late Sacred Majestie King Charles the First -- An act for confirmation of leases and grants from colledges and hospitals -- An act for confirmation of marriages -- An act for prohibiting the planting, setting, or sowing of tobacco in England and Ireland -- An act for erecting and establishing a post-office -- An act impowering the master of the rolls for the time being, to make leases for years, in order to new build the old houses belonging to the rolls.


