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Catalogue description Post Office: Private Collection: Colonel Roger Whitley: Deputy Postmaster General
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| Reference: | POST 94 |
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| Title: | Post Office: Private Collection: Colonel Roger Whitley: Deputy Postmaster General |
| Description: |
Peover papers written by Colonel Roger Whitley, Deputy Postmaster General 1672 - 1677, under Lord Arlington. The private papers were written only for the Postmasters and contain no related documents or incoming correspondence. They include account books relating to final years of farming postal revenue, which show, among other things, Whitley's annual payments for rent in farm of the Post Office. Letter books relating to England, Ireland and further abroad, show examples of abuses of the posts at home and abroad as well as other occurrences such as the provisioning of post horses and the quartering of soldiers on postmasters. Also included is correspondence relating to the history of the collection. Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series. |
| Note: | Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue. |
| Date: | 1672-1677 |
| Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
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