Note 59 — Chapter VI

“Post,” in the middle periods of our Anglo Saxon history, was the man who conveyed a letter. “Haste! post haste!” was intended as an instruction or request to the bearer of it to use despatch in its conveyance, just as in modern days we occasionally see on the envelope of letters, “Immediate,” or on the letters of the humbler classes, “With Speed,” “A Post,” was a character often introduced in the masques and allegories of the middle ages, as well as in the pageants got up for the amusement of Majesty during royal “progresses.”