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Folios 250-251. Draft of a letter from Viscount Weymouth to the Post Master General,...
Catalogue reference: SP 37/12/98
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This record is about the Folios 250-251. Draft of a letter from Viscount Weymouth to the Post Master General,... dating from 1778 Oct 30 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1778 Oct 30
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Folios 250-251. Draft of a letter from Viscount Weymouth to the Post Master General, dated at St James's [Middlesex] concerning communications with France being limited to mail in each direction. Passengers should not be boarded for Dover [Kent], either at Calais or from boats at sea, without a secretary of state's and the captain's signatures.
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- Europe and Russia
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George III
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