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===Tudor Post===
[[File:GallowsLetterGallows Letter England 21 Aug 1598.jpg|450px|thumb|right|The address leaf of an Elizabethan "gallows letter", sent by the Privy Council from London to Chester for sending to the Council of Ireland. Dated 21st of August, 1598 it arrived three days later bearing seals from the towns it had passed through. The gallows, which indicates urgency, is the two-post and cross-bar variety with a short rope handing from it and can be found near the center of the image. The text reads: "For her Majesties speciall affayres To our very loving ffrend the Maior of the Cytye of Chester - Post hast - hast for lyfe".]]
 
The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when King Henry VIII established a "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tuke Master of the Posts]", a position that was renamed "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster_General Postmaster General]" in 1710. Taking mail to and from Ireland started in Tudor times and a weekly service by horse riders was established in October 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I between London, and Liverpool, Via Chester, changing to Holyhead by 1576 to give a shorter sea crossing, although this did mean having to cross the sometimes treacherous Menai Strait. This weekly post was usually sufficient but it later operated on three days a week, with urgent messages carried by civil servants between London and Dublin.
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