Page 103 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1740-1749

-- 4 8 0 1 NEWS (General Post Office, June 21, 1748)

These are to give Notice, That the Post will go every Night, (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London; to begin on Friday next the 24th Instant, and to continue during the Summer Season as
usual.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, July 12, 1748)
Public NOTICE is hereby given, That the Correspondence by Letters, between these Kingdoms and the Kingdom of
France, is now opened, and that the first Mail, for the said Kingdom of France, will be forwarded from this Office, on
Monday next, the 18th of this Instant July.
And further Notice is hereby given, that the said Mails, for the Kingdom of France, will continue, for the future, to go
out from hence on Monday and Thursday of every Week; and that they will convey all Letters to and from Spain, Italy,
Sicily, Switzerland, Turkey, and his Majesty's Island of Minorca, as usual heretofore in former Times of Peace.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

- 4 8 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, December 2, 1748)

Whereas the Post-Boy, bringing the West Mail from Andover to Basingstoke, was last Night, between the Hours of
Seven and Eight, attacked on the Highway, about a Quarter of a Mile on this Side of a Place called Clarken Green, which is
near Four Miles distant from Basingstoke in the County of Southampton, by a single Highwayman, who carried off the
Letters contained in the following Bags, viz. The two Exeter Bags, Shaftsbury, Ashburton, Trnro, Barnstaple, Launceston,
Weymouth, Came/ford, Bodmin, Totness, Ilchester, Dorchester, Somerton, Yeovil, and Blandford.
This is to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the
Person who committed this Robbery, of whom no particular Description is as yet come to Hand, will be intitled to a
Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of
Highwaymen: Or if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make
Discovery, whereby the Person, who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or
Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his
Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

- 4 8 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 17, 1748)

His Majesty's Post-Master General, for the farther Improvement of Correspondence, having been pleased to order,
that Letters shall, for the future, be conveyed by the Post six Days in every Week, instead of Three Days, as at present,
between London and Chippingnorton, Evesham, Worcester, Broomsgrove and Binningham, with the intermediate Places, and
that those Letters, on the three additional Post Days, shall be conveyed through OXFORD: And likewise, that Letters shall,
for the future, be conveyed by the Post six Days in every Week, instead of three Days, as at present, between London and
Wells, Bridgwater, Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton and Exeter, and that those Letters, on the three additional Post Days, shall
be conveyed through BRISTOL.
And the Post-Master General having also been pleased to order a new Branch to be erected between Salisbury and
Axminster, through the Towns of Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport and Lyme, by which Means the Correspondence between
London and those Places, together with the Towns of Weymouth, Wareham, and Corse-Castle, and also their
Correspondence with the Trading-Towns in Devonshire and Cornwall, as well as with Bath, and Bristol, will be considerably
quickened and improved.
Publick Notice is hereby given, that these several additional Conveyances will commence upon Monday the 26th of
this Instant December, at which Time the present Stage between Crewkerne and Bridport, together with that between
Shaftsbury and Blandford, will be discontinued.

80