Page 151 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1770-1779

-- 7 9 0 S NEWS (General Post Office, July 28, 1779)

TWO Packet-boats being found necessary to carry the Mails of Wednesday next, the 4th of August, to the West-Indies,
the Thynne Packet-boat will be sent directly from Falmouth to Jamaica, and back, and the Grantham to Barbadoes and the
Leeward Islands, and return immediately from St. Christopher's to Falmouth, without either of them calling this Time at
Madeira.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 9 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 17, 1779)

EDWARD DEAN, of Westell-hill near Burford in the County of Oxford, by Trade a Wool-comber, stands charged on
Oath upon Suspicion of being concerned in the Robbery of the Mail between Enston and Shipstone on the 20th of February
last, and has absconded from his Dwelling house at Westell hill aforesaid on Sunday the 8th Instant.
The said Edward Dean is between 40 and 50 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 10 or 11 Inches high, of a light Complexion,
wears his Hair sometimes straight, at other Times curled, of a light Colour, large full Eyes, strong Features, a little pitted
with the Small Pox, and has two remarkable Scars, one on each Side of his Face near the Jaw Bone, and dressed in light-
coloured Drab Cloaths.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the said Edward Dean, will be
intitled 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 he may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the said Edward Dean,
be intitled to the said Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
There being Reason to believe that the said Edward Dean is concealed at some House not far distant from Westell-
hill before-mentioned, whoever therefore shall harbour or conceal him after this Notice will be prosecuted with the utmost
Rigour of the Law.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.
The said Edward Dean has constantly attended most of the Cock Fights and Races in that Part of the Country, is well
known at such Places, and is charged upon Oath with being a reputed Deer-stealer.

-- 7 9 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 25, 1779)

THE Bag of Letters from Leicester, of Monday the 13th Instant, which should have arrived here last Tuesday, not
having come to Hand, and there being strong Reason to suspect that the said Bag was stolen at Dunstable on the Night of
the 13th Instant, by a Person named Serjeant Taylor, a private Soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment quartered at Dunstable,
who deserted on Friday the 17th Instant.
The said Serjeant Taylor is described to be Twenty Years of Age, Five Feet Ten Inches high, wear his own Hair of a
brown Colour clubbed, of a fair Complexion, grey Eyes, strait, well made and handsome, except that one Leg is rather
thicker than the other, was born at Kidderminster, is by Trade a Weaver, was enlisted by Lieutenant Ellis, of the Royal
Irish, at Worcester, the lst of January, 1777, and is supposed to be now dressed in a dark drab Coat, with cross Pockets,
enamelled Buttons, a new-fashioned clouded Waistcoat of an orange Ground with black intermixed, and Death-head
Buttons, a blue Surtout of Bath Coating with a crimson Collar, Buckskin Breeches, and a round Hat with two narrow Bands
and two Steel Buckles.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprended and convicted, the said Serjeant Taylor, will be
intitled to a Reward of FIFIY POUNDS.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

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