footpost

footpost

(ˈfʊtˌpəʊst)
n
1. (Communications & Information) post or messages delivered on foot
2. a person who delivers post or messages on foot
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It was proverbial that `the country-gentlewoman's pleasure is the drudgery of a footpost; and she requires as much airing as her husband's horses'.
'On the town:' women in Augustan England
In 1731, Sarah Gilbert, upholsterer, charged for altering a crimson damask bed in the Duke of Cumberland's new apartment at St James's: 'For new Covering the Pedestalls to the base Moldings and Covering the Footposts': NA LC9/288, No.
A royal bed at Chatsworth: the puzzle of the fourth duke's perquisite: Annabel Westman unravels the mystery behind the newly-conserved state bed on display in the State Bedchamber at Chatsworth. It seems likely that it was made in 1723 for George II and was acquired by the 4th Duke of Devonshire as a perquisite in 1761
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