A question on the privilege of franking has arisen in the case of Mr Pease, the Quaker, returned for the county of Durham. The Duke of Richmond, as Post-master General, having been applied to on the subject, has submitted the question to the Solicitor of the Post-office. The question is, whether the Quakers peculiar manner of writing “first month instead of January is agreeable to the law, and gives him the privilege?”
Hampshire Chronicle
14Januaryfirst month 1833
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