Colonel Henry Bishop The handover of power from the Commonwealth to the restored King Charles II was one frought with delays, difficulties and financial shenanigans. The old role of “Master of the King’s Post” was redesigned to become “Postmaster General” and it paid the incumbent £21,500 per year to run the Post Office for a…
Description: Superb early letter dated 1657 EL (file folds, small faults) to Capt John Mannfort in Dublin and rated ‘4d’ (over 40 miles) on front and red wax remnant on rear, signed ‘Jo. Campbell’ and with filing endorsement ‘Mr John Campbell of Ireland 1657’. A fine and exceptionally early example of an internal Irish postal…
Description: Superb early letter dated 9th June 1591 from Cork to London, addressed ‘To The Worshipfull Mr Phillip Corsini, Mr Vincent de la Barre this be dd. [delivered] London. The content by Guglielmo in Corck (sic) whom writes How Lambert keeps in need of money because of his bad management…he is a man very changeable…
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