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From Royal Mail to Public Post

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October 21, 2016

Second page of two-page King's proclamation
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By the King. A Proclamation for the settling [sic] of the Letter Office of England and Scotland.
 

Page two of a two-page folio imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, and by the assignes of John Bill, 1635.

Loan from Alan Holyoake

Photo courtesy National Postal Museum

 

 

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