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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Dedication 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures and Plates 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 12 Acknowledgements for Figures and Plates 13 Primary Sources, Abbreviations and Dates 15 1: From the Romans to the Norman Conquest 18 2: The Royal Mail in the Middle Ages 36 3: Medieval Highways and Travellers 65 4: The Medieval and Tudor Church: Writs, Letters and Messengers 81 5: Medieval Towns: Correspondence and Messengers 92 6: Fifteenth-Century Letters 104 7: The Carriers from the Conquest to the Stuarts 119 8: The Organisation of the Tudor Post at Home and Abroad 130 9: Carrying the Tudor Mail 154 10: Tudor Roads and Postal Routes 183 11: Sixteenth-Century Letters 207 12: The Organisation of a National Postal Service 224 Appendices 249 Appendix 1: Books and Articles on the English Post before 1635 249 Appendix 2: Sir Brian Tuke’s Letter to Thomas Cromwell, 17 August 1533 251 Appendix 3: Viscount Montague’s Secretariat, 1595 253 Appendix 4: Examples of Costs of Subsidised Tudor and Stuart Postal Routes 254 Appendix 5: Postal Accounts from June 1621 to May 1632 255 References 256 Bibliography 272 Index 284

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