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This is therefore to give Notice, That whatever Person or Persons shall apprehend the said Gabriel Tomkins, so that
he be brought to Justice, will be intitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, on the Conviction of the said Gabriel
Tomkins over and above what is allowed by Act of Parliament for the apprehending of Highwaymen. The same Reward
and Encouragement is offer'd to any who may have been Accomplices in the said Robbery, who will moreover be intitled to
His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHEL VOCKE, Secretary.
N. B. A suitable Reward is hereby offered, and will be given to any Person or Persons, who shall apprehend a
Woman, who goes or has gone by the several Names of Anne Hocks, alias Hawkswell, alias Mathews. She is a Person of
between Thirty and Forty Years of Age, of a fair Complexion, and about Five Foot Six Inches high, somewhat pitted with
the Small-Pox, and has the Letters A. H. prick'd in upon one of her Hands with Indian Ink or Gun powder, and it is
supposed she does now, or has lately accompanied Gabriel Tomkins above described.

-- 4 6 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, September 1, 1746)

Whereas certain Information has been made, upon Oath, before one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, that the
Chester Mail, of the 2d of July last, was robbed by a Person who goes, or has gone by the several Names of GABRIEL
TOMKINS, alias YOUNG GIBB, alias KIT JERVIS, alias CHRISTOPHER WOOD, alias UNKLE, alias RAWLINS, who has been
formerly a Smugler, and was some Years since employed as a Riding Surveyor in the Service of the Customs, and some
Years ago lived at the Town of Dartford, in the County of Kent: He is a Man of between Forty and Fifty Years of Age, of a
very swarthy Complexion, somewhat marked with the Small Pox, about Five Foot Nine or Ten Inches high, is a very well
made Man, walks very upright, with large dark Eye-brows, which hang over his Eyes, and has formerly received a Wound in
his Left Arm with a Pistol or Musquet Bullet, of which some Mark or Appearance is left.
By Intelligence received, since the first Printing of this Advertisement, the above described Gabriel Tomkins has a
small Wart or Wen at the Corner of one of his Eye-brows, next to his Nose, and is said to appear in a shabby brown duffel
Coat, much pieced and torn, and trimmed with white metal Buttons, a deep blue Waistcoat, and an old light or lightish Wig
turned Yellow with the Wearing.
This is therefore to give Notice, That whatever Person or Persons shall apprehend the said Gabriel Tomkins, so that
he be brought to Justice, will be intitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds on the Conviction of the said Gabriel
Tomkins over and above what is allowed by Act of Parliament for the apprehending of Highwaymen. The same Reward
and Encouragement is offer'd to any who may have been Accomplices in the said Robbery, who will moreover be intitled to
His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHEL VOCKE, Secretary.
N. B. A suitable Reward and Encouragement is hereby offered, and will be given to any Person or Persons, who
shall apprehend a Woman, who goes or has gone by the several Names of Anne Hocks, alias Hawkswell, alias Mathews, alias
Cameron, and pretends to be the Wife of a French Officer. She is a Person of between Thirty and Forty Years of Age, of a
fair Complexion, and about Five Foot Six Inches high, somewhat pitted with the Small Pox, and has the Letters A. H.
prick'd in upon one of her Hands with Indian Ink or Gun powder, and it is supposed she does now, or has lately
accompanied Gabriel Tomkins above described.

-- 4 6 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, December 4, 1746)

Whereas Vincent Matthews, alias John Saffary, alias William Morris, Esq; alias Thompson, is charged with the Robbery
of his Majesty's West Mail upon the 8th of February 1743, He is described to be a lean Man, about five Foot seven Inches
high, with a thin long Visage, of a fresh Complexion, somewhat freckled about the Temples, and somewhat pitted with the
Small-Pox, and with a longish Nose, with a Rising in the Middle of it. He is farther described to be somewhat round-
shoulder'd, with a slender hollow Back, with thin Legs and thick Ankle Bones, and is said to be of a mean Capacity, and
writes a very bad Hand, and spells very ill; he is about Thirty-five Years of Age, and is said to have a small white Hand, to
be slow of Speech, and of an effeminate Voice, and to stammer a little when he speaks. He was formerly a Hackney
Coachman, belonging to the White Hart Yard, and afterwards kept the White Hart Inn in Brook's Market, which he quitted
about four Years ago; after that he lived in Theobald's Row, and pretended to be a Dealer in Meat, but, as is said, rode in a
Gang of Smuglers, and since that he some Time lived at Bedford; and lastly he lived as a Person of Figure and Fortune in

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