Note 262 — II THE RATE FOR NEWSPAPERS
Reading edition
Tenth Report of the Commissioners on Fees and Emoluments, 1788, p. 28.
"For Post Office purposes the kingdom was divided into six roads—the North Road, the Chester or Holyhead Road, the Western Road, the Kent Road, and the Roads to Bristol and to Yarmouth; and these roads were presided over by a corresponding number of clerks in London, whose duty it was to sort the letters and to tax them with the proper amount of postage."—H. Joyce, ibid., p. 47; cf. infra, Appendix B, p. 404.