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Highwayman, who took the whole Norwich Mail before him upon his Horse, and rode away with it full Speed towards
Epping.
N. B. The Norwich Mail contains the following Bags,
Norwich, Swaffham, Attleborough, Windham, Thetford, Lynn, Stoke, Bury St. Edmund's, New Market, Saffron
Walden, Cambridge, Bishop Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Downham, Epping, Ongar, and Ely.
The Man who committed this Robbery is described to be a Middle-sized Man, and had on a white or very light-coloured
Riding Coat, with a plain Hat - He rode a brown or dark-coloured little Horse, with a Swish Tail
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.

-- S 7 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, July 5, 1757)

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, during the Summer Season as usual.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- S 7 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 24, 1757)

His Majesty's Postmaster-General, for the further Improvement of Correspondence, having been pleased to order the
Bye-Night Mails betwixt London and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Shiffnall, Stafford, Stone, Namptwich,
Chester, Northwich, Warrington, Liverpoo4 and Manchester, which at present pass through Evesham, Worcester and
Bromsgrove, to be for the future conveyed directly through Shipston upon Stower, Stratford upon Avon, and Henly upon
Arden; (by which means those Mails will arrive much earlier, at Birmingham and all the other Towns North thereof, than
they do at present; and a Communication, by the Post be opened from Shipston, Stratford, Henley and Aulcester, to all
Parts of Staffordshire, Cheshire, North Wales and Lancashire, and to the Town of Kendal in Westmoreland:)
And having also been pleased to order, a new Branch to be erected betwixt Stratford upon Avon, and Worcester;
through Aulcester and Droitwich; (by which Channel the Bye Night Mails will be conveyed to Worcester, and a
Communication by Post be opened from Shipston, Stratford, Henley, and Aulcester, to all Parts of Worcestershire,
Gloucestershire, Bristo4 Exeter, all Parts of Devonshire, Cornwall, Somersetshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire,
Monmouthshire, and South Wales:)
Public Notice is hereby given, that these Alterations will commence on the 5th Day of January next, at which Time the
Bye-Night Bags from London to Evesham and Bromsgrove will be discontinued.
And whereas many Letters have hitherto been collected and delivered, in an illegal Manner, at the several Towns and
Stages above-mentioned, to the great Prejudice of the Revenue of the Post-Office, Notice is hereby given, that 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 that Practice is continued.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- S 801 NEWS (General Post Office, May 5, 1758)

Whereas divers Persons, through Ignorance or Carelessness, frequently put Letters into this Office, as also into the
Post Offices both in Town and Country, that are directed on Board of Ships, and to Foreign Parts, without paying, at the
same Time, the legal Postage for the same; and whereas Letters and Packets, are frequently put into the said Offices, which
contain Money, Rings, or other Things of the like Nature; This is to give Notice, that no Letter or Packet whatsoever, under

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