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-4409 Flanders. New schedule ................................................................................................................................................... 74
-4501 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 74
-4502 Flanders. Mail to be directed via Holland .................................................................................................................... 74
-4503 Illegal conveyance of the mail. A warning .................................................................................................................. .-. 74 -
-4504 West Indies. Rates and schedule .................................................................................................................................... 75
-4601 Levant. Schedule of the mail .......................................................................................................................................... 75
-4602 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 76
-4603 Mail robbery. Chester mail robbed near Hocklet in the county of Bedford ............................................................ 76
-4604 Mail robbery. West mail robbed near Hither Black Water in the county of Surrey ............................................... 76
-4605 Mail robbery. Description of Gabriel Tomkins, robber of the Chester mail ........................................................... 76 -
-4606 Mail robbery. Description Gabriel Tomkins, robber of the Chester mail ............................................................... 77
-4607 Mail robbery. Vincent Matthews is charged in the robbery of the West mail of February 8, 1743 ...................... 77
-4701 Mail robbery. Chester mail robbed near St. Alban's ................................................................................................... 78
-4702 Mail robbery. Chester mail. Description of the robbers ............................................................................................. 78
-4703 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 79
-4704 Mail robbery. William and Thomas Bibbie escaped from jail ................................................................................... 79
-4705 Mail robbery. William Bibbie killed while escaping. Thomas Bibbie still at large .................................................. 79
-4801 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 80
-4802 France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey & Minorca. New schedule ...................................................... 80
-4803 Mail robbery. West Mail robbed near Basingstoke ..................................................................................................... 80
-4804 Additional towns receiving mail three or six times a week ......................................................................................... 80
-4805 Minorca. Mail will be carried via Marseilles as in former times of peace ............................................................... 81
-4806 Austrian Netherlands, Flanders. Mail will go every Monday and Friday beginning January 9th .......................... 81
-4901 Mail robbery. Swaffham mail robbed between Swaffham to Thetford ..................................................................... 81 -
-4902 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 81
-4804 Mail robbery. Thomas Munns apprehended ................................................................................................................ 82

*** 1750-1759 ***
-5001 Spain. Communication by packet between Falmouth and the Groyne re-opened .................................................. 83
-5002 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .......................................................... : ................................................................... 83
-5101 Mail robbery. Cirencester mail robbed between Wickham and Uxbridge ............................................................... 83
-5102 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 84
-5103 Mail robbery. West mail robbed on Black Water Heath ............................................................................................ 84
-5201 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 84
-5301 Mail robbery. Person bought a tankard and paid with a stolen bank post bill ........................................................ 84 -
-5302 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 85
-5303 Anonymous letter threatening the Postmaster General ............................................................ ; ................................ 85
-5304 Anonymous letter threatening the Postmaster General. A follow-on ...................................................................... 85
-5401 Mail robbery. Kent mail robbed near Sittingbourne ................................................................................................... 85
-5402 Portugal. Mail for Oporto must be marked via Lisbon otherwise to go by the Corunna mail .............................. 86
-5403 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 86
-5404 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Morden and Lavington, in the county of Wilts ...................................... 86
-5501 Mail robbery. Derby mail robbed between Market Harborough and Kibworth .................................................... 86
-5502 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 87
-5503 Improvement of correspondence. List of new conveyances ....................................................................................... 87
-5504 West Indies & North America. Rates & schedule ...................................................................................................... 88
-5601 Minorca. Routing and postal rate ...................................................................................................... : ........................... 88
-5602 France. No communication with France via Dover and Calais ................................................................................. 88
-5603 Spain, Portugal, countries via Holland & Flanders. Mail to be dispatched every Tuesday and Friday ................ 88
-5604 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 89
-5605 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Chesterfield and Sheffield ......................................................................... 89
-5606 Mail robbery. Worcester mail robbed near Shepherds Bush ..................................................................................... 89
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