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1740-1749

And whereas great Numbers of Letters have hitherto been privately collected and delivered at the several Towns and
Stages abovementioned, contrary to Law, and to the great Prejudice of the Revenue of the Post-Office; All Carriers,
Coachmen, Watermen, Wherrymen, Dispersers of Country News Papers, and all other Persons whatsoever, hereafter
detected in the illegal collecting or delivering of Letters, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity.
N. B. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every Letter collected or delivered contrary to Law, and One Hundred Pounds
for every Week such Practice is continued.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

- 4 8 0 5 NEWS (General Post Office, December 17, 1748)

Publick Notice is hereby given, that the Correspondence of Letters, by the Way of Marseilles, between these
Kingdoms and his Majesty's Island of Minorca, is now opened, and will be carried on by the Packet Boats in the same
Manner as usual heretofore in former Times of Peace.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 8 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 31, 1748)

Publick Notice is hereby given, That the Correspondence, by Letters, between these Kingdoms and the Austrian
Netherlands, is now opened by the Way of Ostend, and that the first Mail for Flanders will be forwarded from this Office
upon Monday the 9th Day of the next Month of January, and will continue for the future to go out from hence upon the
Monday and Friday of every Week, as usual, heretofore in former Times of Peace.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 9 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, January 16, 1749) {Julian Calendar: January 16, 1748}

Whereas the Post-Boy, bringing the Swaffb.am Mail, from that Town to Thetford, on Saturday last, the 14th Instant,
was attacked on the Highway, at a Place called Bodney, between Swaffb.am and Thetford, in the County of Norfolk, by two
Highwaymen on Horseback, who carried off the Letters contained in the Rougham, Holkham, Wells and Fakenham Bags,
and also the Letters from several other Towns and Places in the Thetford Branch: The Persons who committed this
Robbery are described to be both stout Men, and one of them was mounted on a light grey Horse, and the other on a
Brown one. He on the Grey Horse was dressed in a Gold-laced light colour'd Waistcoat with a Great Coat over the same,
and he on the Brown one, wore a compleat Soldier's Dress, with Gold Button Holes.
This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the Persons, or either of them who committed this Robbery, 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, do, or shall make Discovery, whereby the Persons, or either of them,
who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon
Conviction of both, or either of the said Robbers, be intituled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have
His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

- 4 9 0 2 NEWS (General-Post-Office, June 24, 1749)

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 Monday next, the 26th Instant, and continue so to do, during the Summer
Season, as usual.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

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