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1770-1779

NOTICES FOR THE YEARS 1770-1779

-- 7 O O 1 NEWS (General Post Office, January 27, 1770)

In order to encourage the immediate Pursuit of Mail-Robbers, a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS will be paid out of the
Revenue of this Office, for the apprehending of every Person who shall hereafter rob and be convicted of robbing in the
King's Highway, any of His Majesty's Mails of any Bag or Mail of Letters sent by the Post in Great-Britain or Ireland,
although the Offender shall be apprehended before any Advertisement or Notice of such Robbery is issued from this
Office.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

--7 O 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, March 11, 1770)
THIS Morning, about Three o'Clock, the Post Boy carrying the Chester Mail from this Office, was attacked and
robbed upon the City Road, over against the Shepherd and Shepherdess, by a single Footpad, who took out of the Cart a
small Mail, containing the following Bags of Letters, viz.
Barnet, St. Alban's, Dunstable, Fenny Stratford, Stoney Stratford, Daventry, Rugby, Lutterworth, Luton, Towcester,
Ampthill, and Bedford.
The Person who committed this Robbery, appeared to be of a darkish Complexion, middle aged, and rather tall, had
on a flapped Hat, and brownish Great Coat, with a Newmarket Cape.
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, 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 will, upon Conviction of the Person who committed the Robbery, be entitled to the said Reward of Two
Hundred Pounds, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 0 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, July 20, 1770)

THE Chichester Mail, which was sent from this Office this Morning about Two o'Clock, was soon afterwards stolen
out of the Mail Cart between Newington and Clapham, by some Person or Persons unknown, who cut the Straps that
fastened the Mail to the Cart.
The said Mail contained the following Bags of Letters, viz. Chichester, Petworth, Arundel, Midhurst, Havant,
Goldalmin, Haslemere, Steyning, Guildford, Shoreham, Kingston, Claremont, Cobham, Ripley, Petersfield, and
Portsmouth.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the
said Mail, will be entitled to a Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS: Or, if any Person or Persons, whether an Accomplice,
or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Offender or Offenders may be apprehended and brought to Justice,
such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Person or Persons who stole the said Mail, be entitled to the said Reward of
Two HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 0 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, August 9, 1770)

NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons who may expect any Bank Notes, or Bills of Exchange from Newcastle, that the
Post Boy was robbed between that Place and Durham, upon Gateshead Common, the 7th Inst. of the Mail from thence of
the 6th, containing two Bags ticketted Newcastle, and Newcastle and York, with the Letters for London, and the
intermediate Places.

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