Chapter VI: Inland Letter Office to be delivered to Earl of Warwick 187

Burlamachi required to produce accounts 188

Mails to be seized and delivered to the Earl of Warwick 189

Burlamachi imprisoned--He produces accounts 190

Foreign Letter Office remains with Witherings, the Inland Letter Office with the Earl of Warwick 191

James Hickes, clerk in the Foreign Letter Office--Goes over to the King at Oxford 192

King Charles sets up an independent system of Posts 193

Imprisonment of Hickes 195

Witherings assessed by Committee for Advance of Money 196

Earl of Warwick removed from the Post Office, and Mr. Prideaux ordered to settle post stages 197

Orders to search the mails--Witherings to prosecute Wilkes for seditious speeches 198

Witherings prosecuted on a charge of taking part in an insurrection in Essex 199

He is acquitted--Has a serious illness, and makes his will 200

Packet boat taken by the Irish--Irish packets in 1650 201

The Council recommend that the Posts be in the sole power and disposal of Parliament 202

Council of State place Mr. Prideaux, Attorney-General, in charge of the Inland Posts--Witherings still enjoys the Foreign Letter Office 203

Serjeant-at-Arms ordered to search the mails 204

Vigilance of the Council 205

Council consider the question of the Foreign Letter Office 206

Renewed charges of delinquency against Witherings 207

Witherings alleges malicious prosecution--He is acquitted 209

Contributes £1000 "to the going-away of the Lord-Lieutenant for Ireland" 210

Witherings' death--Epitaph to Witherings in church at Hornchurch, Essex 211

His character and work 213