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1750-1759

- 5 6 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, July 3, 1756)
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 5th Instant, and continue so to do during the Summer
Season as usual.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 5 6 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, October 2, 1756)

Whereas the Post-Boy carrying the Mail, dispatched from this Office upon Tuesday the 28th of September, from
Chesterfield to Sheffield, was, on Thursday last, the 30th of the same Month, about half an Hour past Six of the Clock in
the Evening, attacked and robbed, in a Lane between Coal Ashon and Little Norton, in the County of Derby, by Two Men
on Foot, who took from him and carried away the Mail, containing the Bag of Letters from London to Sheffield, and
likewise the Bag containing the Bye and Cross-Road Letters, from Chesterfield to Sheffield, as also four Shillings and
Sixpence from the said Post-Boy.
The two Persons who committed this Robbery are described as middle sized Men, and wearing, the one of them a
blue Coat and white Waistcoat, and the other a light-coloured Frock; one of them was pitted with the Small-Pox, and the
other had a Mark upon one Hand, as if the same had been cut.
This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the two Persons 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, do, or shall make Discovery, whereby both, or either of the Persons who committed
the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party or
Parties, be entitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-5 6 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 12, 1756)

Whereas the Post-Boy, carrying the Worcester Mail, from hence to Southall, was, this Morning, between the Hours of
Four and Five of the Clock, attacked and robbed on the Road near Shepherds Bush, by a Foot Pad, who laid hold of the
Bridle of the Post-Boy's Horse, and bid him dismount, and afterwards led the said Horse into a Lane near the great Road,
and from thence into a Field adjoining, and there near to a Hay Rick took off the Mail from the Horse, opened it, and
afterwards the Letters contained in the following Bags, viz. Campden, Chipping-Norton, Eversham, Burford, Whitney,
Woodstock, Oxford, Ludlow, Bromyard, Worcester, Thame, Southal~ Gerrard's Cross, Uxbridge, High Wickham and
Beaconsfield.
N. B. The following Bags in the said Mail were unopened, viz. Shipston, Enston, and Tenbury; and the said Foot Pad,
after detaining the Post-Boy upwards of two Hours, mounted the said Post Boy's Horse, and rode off with the same towards
Acton.
The Man who committed this Robbery is descnbed to be a middle sized Man, of a thin Visage, and wore his Hat
flapp'd, and had on a Blue Surtout Coat with Metal Buttons, and wore either his own Hair or a Wig tied behind.
The Horse the Post-Boy rode, and which the Foot Pad carried off, is a black one, with some white on the near Leg
behind, about fourteen Hands and an half high, and a little lame with the Spring Halt.
This is therefore 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 an 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 entitled to the
same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

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