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Alnwi ck Coleshi l l Holywel l Morpeth Shrewsbury
Ashbourne Chester Halifax Norwich Stone
Asaph St. Conway Huddersfield Newmarket Stockport
Bury St. Earund' s Caxton Howden Newark Sheffield
Bury, Lancashire Congleton Hull Nottingham Shields, North
Boston Chesterfield Harrowgate Northa!J1)ton Shields, South
Burton on Trent Chorley Haddington Nantwich Sunderland
Birmingham Cave, North Ives St. Huntingdon Northop Stourbridge
Bewdley Cave, South Kidderminster Newcastle under Line Scarborough
Bangor Daventry Kendal Newcastle upon Tyne Thetford
Bradford, Yorkshire Darlington Knutsford Northwich Towcester
Barnesley Derby Lynn Northallerton Tuxford
Bawtry Dudley Lincoln Ormskirk Thorne
Beverley Doncaster Loughborough Peterborough Tadcaster
Bel ford Durham Leicester Preston Tiddeswel l
Berwick Dunbar Litchfield Royston \iii sbech
Bolton Edinburgh Liverpool Rochdale Wolverha~ton
Blackburne Ferrybrldge Leek Retford Walsall
Boroughbr i dge Grantham Leeds Rawcl iffe Warrington
Bakewell Gainsborough Lancaster Rippon Wakefield
Buxton Gateshead Marsh Stilton Weighton Market
Chapel le Faith Garstang Manchester Spalding Wetherby
Callt>ridge Huntingdon Macclesfield Stamford Wigan
Charteri s Harborough Middlewich Stafford Whitby
Coventry Holyhead Mansfield Shi ffnal l Yarmouth
Early next Spring the Plan will be farther extended to GIASGOW, ABERDEEN, to FALMOUTII, PLYMOUfH, &c. and
the Improvements in the Bye and Cross Posts given to the Remainder of the principal Post Towns.
N. B. The YORK, the NEWCASTLE, and the EDINBURGH Mail Coaches go from the Bull and Mouth Inn in Bull and
Mouth Street; to which House the WORCESTER Mail Coach has been lately removed.
CHARLES BONNOR.

·· 8 7 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 8, 1787)

BANK NOTE, for £15 No. 513, dated 2d November, 1786: The Person in Possession of the above Bank Note, or any
through whose Hands it may have passed since the 16th November, are requested to give immediate Information at this
Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

·· 8 7 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 15, 1787)

THE Post-boy carrying the Mail from Bodmin to Truro, on Thursday Night the llth instant, was stopped within two
miles of Truro, about ten o'Clock, by a Person mounted on a stout White Horse, who presented a Pistol to the Boy, and
took from him the Mail which contained the Bags of Letters from hence of Tuesday the 9th instant, for Falmouth and
Truro, and the Bags with the Bye Letters for Truro, and all other Parts of Cornwall beyond Truro.
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 Person, whether an Accomplice in the 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, Secretary.

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