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-- 5102 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 21, 1751)

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 24th Instant, and continue so to do, during the Summer
Season, as usual
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 5103 NEWS (General Post Office, July 29, 1751)

Whereas the Post-Boy bringing the West Mail to this Office, was this Morning, between One and Two of the Clock,
on Black Water Heath, attacked and robbed, by a single Highwayman, mounted on a Brown Horse or Mare, who took out
of the said Mail, and carried off the following Bags of Letters, Viz.
Plymouth, Ashburton, Chard, Bridport,
Exeter, Dartmouth, Ilminster, Wirrborne,
Truro, Launceston, Shaftsbury, Christchurch,
St. Columb, Honiton, Salisbury, Pool,
Bodmin, Tiverton, Dorchester, Cranborne,
Camel ford, Crewkerne, Weymouth, Fordingbridge,
Oakhampton, Taunton, Blandford, Ringwood,
Barnstaple, Wellington, Lyme, Basingstoke, and
Totnes, Minehead, Axminster, Whitchurch.
The Person who committed this Robbery, was a middle sized Man, and had on a brown Duffie Surtout Coat, and rode
on a Brown Horse or Mare, about Fourteen Hands high.
This therefore is to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the Person who committed this Robbery, will be entitled 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.

-- 5201 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 22, 1752)

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 Wednesday next the 24th Instant, and continue so to do during the Summer
Season, as usual.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 5 3 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, March 17, 1753)

Whereas a Person of about Six Feet high, Fifty Years of Age, of a Swarthy Complexion, much pitted with the Small
Pox, and wore a darkish coloured Coat, and a brown Bob Wig, came last Night, about Six of the Clock, to the Shop of
Mr. Thomas Harding, Goldsmith, in the Minories, and bought of him a straight bodied Silver Tankard, Weight 25 oz.
18 dwt. with the Letters C. D. marked, by his Desire, on the Handle thereof; and the said Person having given, in Payment,
for the said Tankard, a Bank Post Bill, which was taken out of the Cirencester Mail, which was robbed on the 18th of April,
1751, and indorsed the said Bank Post Bill by the Name of Charles Dew.
This is therefore to give Notice to all Goldsmiths and others, to whom the said Tankard may be offered in Sale, that
whoever apprehends, or causes to be apprehended the Person above described, who is strongly suspected of having been a

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