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In 1653 Parliament set aside all previous grants for postal services, and contracts were let for the inland and foreign mails to [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1007-1013 John Manley] who was given a monopoly on the postal service. This was an Act of Parliament in 1657 had established the Government monopoly of the carriage of mails and the position of Postmaster General was created. By the following year there was a daily coach service to London, departing from the [https://chesterwalls.info/whitelionexchange.html White Lion Inn] and picking up at the Yacht Inn.
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The mail was robbed in 1703:
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