The said Office is managed by a Deputy, and o∣ther
Officers, to the Number of seventy seven per∣sons;
who give their actual attendance respectively,
in the dispatch of the business.
Upon this Grand Office, depends one hundred
eighty two Deputy-Post-Masters in England and
Scotland; most of which keep Regular Offices in
their Stages, and Sub-Post-Masters in their Bran∣ches;
and also in Ireland, another General Office
for that Kingdom, which is kept in Dublin, consist∣ing
of Eighteen like Officers, and Forty-five Depu∣ty
Post-Masters.
The Present Post-Master-General, keeps con∣stantly,
for the transport of the said Letters and Pac∣quets;
- Between Eng∣land
and—
- France, two Pacquet-Boats.
- Flanders, two Pacquet-Boats.
- Holland, three Pacquet-Boats.
- Ireland, three Pacquet-Boats.
And at Deal, two Pacquet-Boats for the Downs.
All which Officers, Post-Masters, Pacquet-Boats,
are maintained at his own proper Charge.
And as the Master-piece of all those good regula∣tions,
established by the present Post-Master-Gene∣ral,
for the better Government of the said Office, he
hath annexed and appropriated the Market-Towns
of England, so well to their Respective Post-Stages,
that there is no Considerable Market-Town, but
hath an easie and certain Conveyance for the Let∣ters
thereof, to and from the said Grand Office, in
the due course of the Males every Post.
Though the Number of Letters Missive in Eng∣land,
were not at all Considerable in our Ancestors
days, yet it is now so prodigiously great, (since the
meanest People have Generally learnt to write) that
this Office is Farmed for above 40, rather 50000 l.
a Year.