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*** 1750-1759 (continued) ***
-5701 Mail robbery. North mail robbed near Royston .......................................................................................................... 90
-5702 Mail robbery. Norwich mail robbed near Laytonstone, Essex ................................................................................... 90
-5703 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 91
-5704 Improvement of correspondence ................................................................................................................................... 91
-5801 Foreign letters. They have to be prepaid except to Holland and Flanders .............................................................. 91
-5802 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 92
-5901 Guadeloupe. Schedule ..................................................................................................................................................... 92
-5902 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 92
-5903 Person going to or coming from Holland have to have a passport ........................................................................... 92 ·I
-5904 British Army in Germany. Schedule and postal rates ................................................................................................. 92

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-6001 Mail robbery. Post boy was robbed of the Portsmouth mail near Kensington Gravel Pits ................................... 93
-6002 Passports are required to come from or go to Holland .............................................................................................. 93
-6003 Spain. Letters going through France will be dispatched twice a week instead of once .......................................... 93
-6004 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 93
-6101 Bank note found in the yard of the post office ............................................................................................................. 93
-6102 Improvement of correspondence. List of new cross roads ......................................................................................... 94
-6103 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. 95
-6201 Corunna. January 5th will be the date of the last dispatch during the present war ................................................ 95
-6202 Spain. During the present war, no more letters can be received or forwarded ....................................................... 95
-6203 Isle of Bellisle. Letters to be forwarded from Plymouth by two vessels ................................................................... 95
-6204 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Newcastle and Durham ............................................................................. %
-6205 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule .............................................................................................................................. %
-6206 Mail robbery. Bath mail robbed in his way to Petty France, Gloucestershire ......................................................... %
-6207 Havanna. Mail dispatched with the West India Mail .................................................................................................. %
-6208 France, Spain, Sicily, Switzerland & Turkey. Re-opening of communication with and through France ............. %
-6209 No more passports needed to go to Holland ............................................................................................................... 97
-6210 Postal rates. Domestic, colonial & foreign ................................................................................................................... 97
-6211 Flanders. Mail to go via Ostend instead of via Flushing, every Tuesday & Friday ............................................... 100
-6212 France, Holland, Flanders. Re-opening of communications. Schedule. No passports needed ........................... 100
-6301 Extension of the Bye night mail beyond Worcester to Ledbury and Hereford ..................................................... 100
-6302 Barbados, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, &c. March 5 departure by the "Princess Augusta" ................................ 100
-6303 Spain & Portugal. Schedule via Corunna .................................................................................................................... 101
-6304 France, Portugal, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, &c. Schedule ........................................................................................ 101
-6305 Postal rates. Domestic, colonial & foreign ................................................................................................................. 101
-6306 Victualling Office announcement ................................................................................................................................ 102
-6307 Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule ............................................................................................................................ 103
-6308 Mail robbery. Post boy was robbed of the Chester mail on Fenchley Common ................................................... 103
-6309 Mail improvement. New Bye night mails in Scotland ............................................................................................... 103
-6310 New York. Second Saturday of every month & extraordinary mail on December 26th, from Falmouth .......... 104
-6311 Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Maidstone and Rochester ....................................................................... 104
-6312 Germany, Turkey & Levant. Mail to be marked "via Flanders" otherwise will go via Holland ........................... 104
-6313 Mail robbery. Rye Mail bags stolen in front of the post office ................................................................................ 104
-6401 Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Christopher's, &c. Schedule & postage rates ................................................................. 105
-6402 Mail robbery. Post boy was robbed between York and Malton .............................................................................. 105
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-6403 Franking. Regulations of the free franking system. Penalties. ( 4 Geo 3, c24) ·'··············································· 105
-6404 West Indies, United States. July 12 "Hillsborough" departure postponed ............................................................. 106
-6405 West Indies, United States. "Grenville" packet. Rates and schedule ...................................................................... 107
-6406 West Indies, Pensacola, Savanna, &c. Mail to be dispatched January lOth by the "Suffolk" ............................... 107
-6501 West Indies, Pensacola, Savanna, &c. Mail to be dispatched March 14th by the "Hillsborough" ....................... 107
-6502 Illegal conveyance of letters. A Caution. Penalties .................................................................................................... 107
-6503 Illegal conveyance of letters. A Caution. Penalties ························································································~··········· 107

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