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. 1690 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A26433 Wing A615C ESTC R213140 99825640 99825640 30026 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Postal service -- England -- Early works to 1800. 2006-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs 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 .