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-- 8 0 0 5 NEWS (General Post Office, December 9, 1780)
THERE being great Reason to suspect that the Mail containing the following Bags of Letters was Yesterday Morning
stolen out of the Mail Cart between Epping and London, in its Way to this Office, viz.
Norwich Downham Bishopstortford Fakenham
Thetford Harlow Windham Holt
Carrbridge Lynn Epping Dereham
Bury Stoke Sawbridgeworth Ely
Newmarket Swaffham Rough am Ongar
Attleborough Saffron Walden Wells
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or shall 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, whether an Accomplice in
the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery whereby any one or more of the Persons concerned therein may be
apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party or Parties, be entitled to the same
Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8 101 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 29, 1781)

THE Post-Boy bringing the Bristol Mail this Morning from Maidenhead was stopt between Two and Three o'Clock by
a single Highwayman, with a Crape over his Face, between the Eleventh and Twelfth Mile-stone, near to Cranford-bridge,
who presented a Pistol to him, and after making him alight, drove away the Horse and Cart, which were found about Seven
o'Clock this Morning in a Meadow Field near Farmer Lott's at Twyford, when it appeared that the greatest Part of the
Letters were taken out of the Bath and Bristol Bags, and the following Bags entirely taken away.
Pewsey Henley Ross Aberistwith
Calne Reading Hereford La~ter
Newbury Wantage Leominster Cardigan
Rams bury Cirencester Presteign Carmarthen
Trowbridge Stroud North leach Tenby
Melksham Wootton under Edge Cheltenham Haverford West
Bradford Gloucester Fairford Pembroke
Wal l i ngford Ledbury Lech lade Abergavenny.
Maidenhead Tewkesbury Hay
The Person who committed this Robbery is supposed to have had an Accomplice, as Two Persons passed the Post-
Boy on Cranford-bridge on Horseback, prior to the Robbery, One of whom he thinks was the Robber; but it being
extremely dark, he is not able to give any Description of their Persons.
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 Highwaymen; or if any Pei::son, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make
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Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will,
upon Conviction of the Party, be entitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His
Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8102 NEWS (General Post Office, February 3, 1781)

THE Post Boy bringing the Bristol mail, on Monday :Qiorning the 29th of January last, morning from Maidenhead, was
stopped between two and three o'clock, by a single highwayman, with a crape over his face, between the llth and 12th mile
stone, near to Cranford Bridge, who presented a pistol to him, and after making him alight, drove away the horse and cart,
which were found about seven o'clock the same morning the robbery was committed, in a meadow field near farmer Lott's,

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