Editing Postage stamp (section)

=== William Dockwra ===
In April 1680, [[William Dockwra]], an English searcher at the customs-house in [[London]], and his partner [[Robert Murray (financier)|Robert Murray]] established the [[London Penny Post]].<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Post, and Postal Service |volume=22 |page=178 |first=Thomas Allan |last=Ingram}}</ref> The LPP was a mail system that delivered letters and small parcels up to a pound in weight and £10 in value inside the city of London for the sum of one penny.<ref name=EB1911/> Confirmation of paid postage was indicated by the use of a hand ''stamp'' to frank the mailed item. Though this "stamp" was applied to the letter or parcel itself, rather than to a separate piece of paper, it is considered by many historians to be the world's first postage stamp.<ref name="William Dockwra and the Penny Post Service">{{cite web|url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/chrono/ch1680ae.shtml|title=William Dockwra and the Penny Post Service|publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization|access-date=8 November 2010|archive-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201224919/http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/chrono/ch1680ae.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>