Obs. [CROSS- 5.] The post that carried letters on cross-country routes.
[1720. Lond. Gaz., 16 April. General Post Office, London, April 12, 1720 … His Majesty’s Attorney-General, having granted to Ralph Allen … a Farm of all the Bye-Way or Cross-Road Letters throughout England.]
1750. Coventry, Pompey Litt., II. iii. (1785), 52/1. All the tramantanes that come by the cross-post.
1880. L. Stephen, Pope, 146. Ralph Allen, who had made a large fortune by farming the cross-posts.
