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An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland - T. B. Lang
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Title: An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland
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AN
HISTORICAL SUMMARY
OF THE
POST OFFICE IN SCOTLAND,
COMPILED
FROM AUTHENTIC RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS.
BY
T. B. LANG,
Esq.
CONTROLLER, SORTING DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, EDINBURGH.
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY W. H. LIZARS, ST. JAMES' SQUARE.
1856.
NOTE.
This Historical Summary, compiled by Mr. Lang, was originally contained in a Letter addressed to the Secretary to the General Post Office in Scotland, with a view to its being included in the Annual Report of the Postmaster-General, presented to both Houses of Parliament at the commencement of the present Session, but it not being considered necessary to include the whole Summary in the Report, Extracts only were published in the Appendix. The whole Summary is therefore now printed, with his Grace's sanction, for private distribution.
AN
HISTORICAL SUMMARY
OF THE
POST OFFICE IN SCOTLAND.
The earliest records that can be found relating to the conveyance of Despatches or Letters in Scotland, do not date earlier than the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In these early records, special messengers for the conveyance of the King's Despatches and Correspondence are called "Nuncii or
Cursores;" but the information as to their mode of travelling, and regulations for their guidance, is imperfect and limited. Messengers of this description were also employed to convey despatches from foreign countries, for which they received gratuities on their arrival at the Scottish Court. About the year 1500, the name of Post is found to apply to messengers travelling with the utmost rapidity then attainable in charge of despatches.[1] On the 1st of April 1515, the English envoy in Scotland wrote from Stirling to Henry VIII. of England—This Friday, when I came home to dyner, I received your most honorable letters by Post, dated at your mansion, Greenwich, 26th March.
[2] These letters, which appear to have occupied five or six days in transit from Greenwich
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