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Whitehaven. Winchester. Witham in Essex. Worcester. Wycombe. West.
Wigan. Windham in Norfolk. Wolverhalll>ton. Worksop.
Wight. Isle of Windsor. Wooburn. Workington. Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Winborn. Wingham in Kent. Woodstock. Wycombe. High. York.
C*) = from Midsl.lllller to Michaelmas
A Mail is dispatched from London to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London every Day, Wednesday and Sunday
excepted; as also to and from Morpeth, Alnwick, Belford, and Berwick; and a Post is established Six Times a Week between
Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Glasgow, Greenock, and the intermediate Towns.
Letters are sent from hence on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Arundel, Brighthelmstone, Petworth,
Steyning, Shoreham, Wisbich, Grayes, Newport in Shropshire, Peterborough, Spalding, Boston, and Louth, and return hither
on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Likewise on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to the Devizes, Melksham, Trowbridge, and
Bradford in Wilts, and return on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
To Bridgenorth every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and from thence every Day.
And to Somerton, Ilminster, Chard, and Axminster, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and
back every Day.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 5 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, September 28, 1775)

A Mail will be dispatched from hence on Wednesday next for New York, and also one for Charles Town, after which
there will be no regular Conveyance for Letters from this Office to North America, but whenever a Packet may be
dispatched to any Part of that Continent, proper Notice will be given.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 5 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, December 5, 1775)

THE Post-boy carrying the Mail between Steyning and Shoreham, on Sunday Night the 3d Instant, was attacked and
robbed about Midnight, on the open Down, near a Farm called Geringham in the Parish of Old Shoreham, by a Footpad,
who took from him 3s. and the Mail, containing the Bags with the Letters from hence of Saturday the 2d Instant for
Shoreham and Brighthelmstone, and the Bags with the Bye-Letters from Haslemere, Petworth, Arundel, and Steyning.
The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be rather tall and thin, had on a light-coloured Frock-Coat, a
round rough Hat, and wore his own Hair, or a Wig tied behind in a Club.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person 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 Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the 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 Party, be intitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and will also receive His Majesty's
most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

- 7 5 0 5 NEWS (General Post Office, December 8, 1775)

THE Duke of Cumberland Packet-boat being ready at Falmouth to sail with Dispatches for Virginia, and from thence
to proceed to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida; all Letters for any of these Provinces, which may
come to this Office on or before Saturday the 16th Instant, will be forwarded therewith.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

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