A. D. 17 1 o. 13 



ing the eaftern frontiers of New-England ; and therefor of the greater 

 importance to be fecured to us. 



Accordmg to D' Avenant's New dialogues, publiflied in 1710, [K ii, 

 p. 74] there was coined in England between the years 1659 and 1710, 

 in gold and filver, the fum of L2 1,41 9,307. 



The fame author [ibidem, p. 95] fays, he is credibly informed, ' that 



* the bank of Amllerdam contains no lefs, in effedual gold and filver, 

 than L36, 000,000 flerling. 



171 1 It having been found inconvenient, that any perfon ihould, at 



the fame time, be in the diredion of the bank of England and of the Eafl;- 

 India company, the parliament this year, in an ad of [9 ^««. c. 7] 



* for enabling and obliging the bank of England, for the time therein 

 ' mentioned, to exchange all exchequer bills for ready money upon de- 



* mand, inferred a claufe to difable any perfon to be governor, deputy- 

 ' governor, or diredor, of the bank of England, and a diredtor of the 



* Eaft-India company at the fame time.' 



The former laws for eftablifhmg the poft-ofRces in both kingdoms 

 of England and Scotland were repealed ; and one general poft-office, as 

 alfo one general pofl-mafter, was now appointed for the united king- 

 dom: and chief letter-offices were ereded at Edinburgh, Dublin, New- 

 York, and the Weil-Indies. At the fame time the poilage of letters 

 was increafed, \dz. what paid before but 2^ now paid 3^, and for double 

 letters 6d, &c. ' and for the port of all and every the letters and 



* packets by the carriage called the penny-poft, eflablifhed within Lon- 



* don, Wellminfler, Southwark, and parts adjacent, and to be received 



* and delivered within ten miles from the general letter-office in Lon- 

 ' don, one penny,' which is the firfl: mention of a penny-poft in the 

 ftatute-book. [9 yinfi. c. 10.] 



By this ad, the amiount (grofs) for one year, ended at michaelmas 

 1710, of the poft-office, was - - Liii,46i 17 10 



Dr. D' Avenant's New dialogues make the net 

 amount, on a medium of the three laft years, to be 56,664 19 loi- 



By an ad for preferving white, and other, pine trees, growing in her 

 majefty's colonies of New-Hampfliire, the MafEichufet's-bay, and Pro- 

 vince of Maine, Rhode-ifland, and Providence plantation ; the Narra- 

 ganfet country or King's-province, and Connedicut in New-England, 

 alfo in New-York, and New-Jerfey, in America, for the mafting of her 

 majefty's navy ; it is enaded, ' that whereas there are great numbers of 

 ' thofe trees growing in the faid provinces, near the lea and on navigable 

 ' rivers, which may be commodioully broughtinto this kingdom for that 



* fervice : for the better prefervation thereof, no perfon afcer the 24th of 



* September 1711, in any of the faid colonics fliall prefume to cut, fell, 

 ' or dcftroy, any of thofc trees fit for mafls, not being the property of any. 



