In Restoration England the Secretaries of State performed the
duties not only of a Home and Foreign Secretary combined, but also
of a modern news-agency. This is a 1956 study in a vital function
of seventeenth-century government, in communications, the
dissemination of news, and the growth of articulate public opinion.
Mr Fraser first shows the scope and nature of the Secretaries'
responsibility for providing the Council with intelligence, their
control of the Post Office, and their use of spies among the
Dissenters and in Holland during the Dutch wars. The second part
covers the continental system of news exchange, the Secretaries'
correspondence with ambassadors, consuls, customs officers,
postmasters and other, details of posts, and the sources of news
published in the London Gazette and the newsletters from Whitehall.
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