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To Exeter, through Marlborough, Devizes, Froom, Wells, Bridgewater, and Taunton, from the Swan with Two Necks,
Lad-lane.

-- 8 6 0 5 NEWS (General Post Office, July 28, 1786)

THE Bags of Letters from hence of Monday the 24th Instant, for the following Places, were lost or stolen out of the
Boot of the Mail Coach at Knutsford, between One and Two o'Clock on Wednesday Morning, viz.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, Warrington, Wigan, and Prescot.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the
said Bags, 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 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.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 6 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, October 28, 1786)

THE Post-Boy bringing the Mail from Haslemere to this Office last Night, was stopt on Milford-Heath, within Three
Miles of Godalmin, about Half past Nine o'Clock, by a Person on Foot, dressed in a round Frock, who presented a Pistol to
the Boy, and obliged him to dismount from his Horse. The Robber mounted the Horse, and rode off with the Mail, which
contained the following Bags of Letters for London, viz.
Arundel, Midhurst, Petworth, Haslemere, Steyning, Shoreham.

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 of Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall
make 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.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 6 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 2, 1786)

JAMES DOBSON, a Messenger employed in the Penny Post-Office, who stands charged with Felony, absconded from
his Lodgings at No. 3, Slater's buildings, Angel-alley, Bishopsgate Without, on Tuesday Evening the 31st past, along with his
Wife.
The said James Dobson is about 21 Years of Age, Five Feet Seven Inches high, of a swarthy Complexion, is very near
sighted, and speaks thick; he wears his own black HF in Curls behind, has a large Scar under his Chin, and another on the
Top of his Head. . 1
Whoever shall apprehend and convict him, or cause him to be apprehended and convicted, will receive a Reward of
FlFrY POUNDS.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8 6 0 8 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 27, 1786)
MR. PALMER'S PIAN for the more regular, safe, and exp~ditious Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails, is this Day
extended to YORK, and likewise to NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, and EDINBURGH.
A SIX Days Post per Week is now established betwixt this City and the undermentioned Post-Towns, which are
accommodated also with a Bye and Cross Post EVERY DAY.

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