An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against the Government, have dispersed in coffee-houses, and other publick places of meeting, divers most infamous scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office; ... England and Wales. Post Office. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26433 of text R213140 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A615C). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A26433 Wing A615C ESTC R213140 99825640 99825640 30026 2248510890

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A26433) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30026) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1802:17) An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against the Government, have dispersed in coffee-houses, and other publick places of meeting, divers most infamous scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office; ... England and Wales. Post Office. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1690?] Title from caption and opening lines of text. Imprint suggested by Wing. Signed at end: John Wildman. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Postal service -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo An advertisement from their Majesties General Post-Office, London, it being notorious, that many ill-minded persons, for some wicked designes against England and Wales. Post Office 1690 1 407 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ADVERTISEMENT From their MAJESTIES General POST-OFFICE , LONDON ,

IT being Notorious , that many ill-minded Persons , for some wicked Designs against the Government , have dispersed in Coffee-Houses , and other publick Places of Meeting , divers most infamous Scandals of their Majesties General Post-Office ; giving out , that Letters are there stopped , broke open , and destroyed at pleasure : And especially , that great Numbers of Letters about Elections of Members for the next Parliament , have been burnt .

For the Suppressing of such malicious Falshoods and wicked Insinuations , which in consequence reflect on their Majesties Just and Gracious Government , and tend to lessen their Revenue from the said Office : It is hereby Notified , that every good and honest minded Person may easily be satisfied by the Oaths of near twenty Officers in the said Office , that the aforesaid Reports are utterly false , and maliciously groundless ; and that no Letters upon the said occasion of Election , or at any other time have been destroyed , open'd or stay'd in this Office , and it may be also made manifest to them , that such opening of Letters as is falsly rumour'd and pretended , is wholly impracticable in the said Office , if there were so vile a mind in the Master of the same , in regard the Letters pass not his hands , and the time from the Receipt of the same to the Posts going , is not in any kind sufficient for such a foul and villanous Practice .

It is therefore heartily intreated of all that have respect to Truth and Justice , that in love to the Honour and Reputation of their Majesties Government , and to Justice it self , they would desire every one whom they shall hear telling and dispersing the aforesaid Scandals upon the said Office , to discover the Authors and Inventers of the same : And if any can be found who have the bold Malice to affirm any of the aforesaid Falshoods , concerning the Master of the said Office , or any other Officers thereunto belonging , he or they reporting the same , shall be put upon the Justification thereof in the due Course of the Law , or otherwise to Pay such Damages as shall be judg'd answerable to their odious Offence .

JOHN WILDMAN .