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1780-1789

The Letters are intended to be sent out regularly from hence, between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning, so
as to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.
It is necessary that all Newspapers should be put into this Office before Six o'Clock, otherwise they cannot be certain
of an immediate Conveyance.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.
The following (exclusive of those on the Cross Post Roads) are the Mail Coaches already established.
To Bath and Bristol, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Norwich and Yarmouth, through Newmarket and Thetford, from the White Horse, Fetter-lane.
To Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, from the same Place.
To Nottingham and Leeds, from the Bull and Mouth, in Bull and Mouth-street.
To Manchester, through Derby, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Liverpool, through Coventry and Litchfield, from the same place.
To Portsmouth, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church .
. To Southampton and Poole, from the Bell and Crown, Holbom; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Gloucester, Swansea, and Caermarthen, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church, and the Gloucester Coffee-
house, Piccadilly.
To Hereford, Brecknock, Caermarthen, and Milford Haven, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church, and the
Gloucester Coffee-House, Piccadilly.
To Worcester and Ludlow, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Bath and Bristol, through Andover and Devizes, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester
Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Shrewsbury and to Birmingham, Kidderminster and Bewdley, from the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth-street.
To Cirencester, Tedbury, and Stroud, from the George and Blue Boar, Holbom; and the Gloucester Coffee-house,
Piccadilly.
To Windsor, from the Three Cups, Bread-street, and the Gloucester Coffee house, Piccadilly.
To Chester and Holyhead, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Carlisle, by Way of Manchester, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Dover, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, to York House,
Dover.
To Exeter, through Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the
Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Exeter, by Way of Wells, Bridgewater and Taunton, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester
Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

-- 8 6 0 1 NEWS (General-Post-Office, January 5, 1786)
THE Post-Boy carrying the Mail from South Cave to Hull, containing the Bag of Letters for Hull, which was
dispatched from this Office last Saturday Night, the 31st of December, and the Bag with the Bye Letters for Hull, was
stopped by two Footpads about Nine o'Clock on Monday Night the 2d Instant, on Anlaby Common near Three Miles from
Hull, who took from him the Mail, and the Horse on which he rode, and at some Distance cut the Mail from the Saddle,
and carried it away.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, both or either of the Persons 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 both or either of the Persons who committed the same may be apprehended and
brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of both or either of the Parties, be entitled to the same Reward of
Two HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive his Majesty's most Gracious Pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

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