Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post-office

Polwhele, in his *History of Cornwall*, says, p. 139.: "To our countryman Edmund Prideaux we owe the regular establishment of the Post-office." He says again, p. 144.: "Edmund Prideaux, Attorney-General to Oliver Cromwell, and *Inventor* of the Post-office." Now the Edmund spoken of as Attorney-General, was of Ford Abbey, in Devonshire, and second son of Sir Edmund Prideaux, of Netherton, in the said county, therefore could not be one of the Cornish branch. Query No. 1. Who was the Edmund Prideaux, his countryman, that regularly established the Post-office? Query No. 2. How were letters circul…