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172fJ-1729

NOTICES FOR THE YEARS 1720-1729

--2 0 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, April 12, 172fJ)

The Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis and the Honourable James Craggs, Esq.; His Majesty's Postmaster
General, by the Advice, Consent and Direction of the Right Honourable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and
with the Approbation of the Right Honourable Nicholas Lechmere, Esq; His Majesty's Attorney-General, having granted to
Ralph Allen of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Gent. a Farm of all the Bye-Way or Cross-Road Letters
throughout England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and being determined, for the further Improvement of
His Majesty's Revenue, and for the Benefit and Advantage of the Nation, to Establish a more regular and better Method
for the safer Conveyance of these Letters; all Persons are desired to take special Notice, that after the 24th Day of June
next ensuing, the Postage of no Bye-Way or Cross Road Letters is any where to be demanded at the Places they are sent
from [upon any Pretence whatsoever] unless they are directed on board of a Ship, and that the same Care and Method will,
for the future, be every where taken, in the safe and speedy Conveyance of them, as is at present made Use of in the
Management of the London Letters.
HENRY MARSHALL, Secretary.

--2 0 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, April 22, 1720)

Whereas the Bristol Mail, dispatched from thence on Wednesday the 20th Instant, was this Morning, between Two
and Three of the Clock, robbed upon the Road between Slow and Colebrooke, by two Highway-men, who took several
Letters out of the Bath Bag: These are therefore to give Notice, that whoever apprehends the said Persons concerned in
this Robbery, or either of them, so as to have them convicted, shall receive a Reward of £100 to be paid by the Receiver
General of the Post-Office in London, over and above the Reward directed by Act of Parliament for apprehending of
Highway-men; and if either of the Persons concerned in the said Robbery, will discover the other in the manner aforesaid,
he shall have the said Reward of £100 and also His Majesty's Pardon.
N.B. One of the Persons concerned in this Robbery, has a Scar upon his Forehead, just above his right Eye, and was
mounted on a Bay Horse; the other was upon a Black Horse with a Star upon his Forehead, and one white Foot.

-- 2 0 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, May 16, 1720)

His Majesty having for the Benefit of the Merchants trading to Galicia, Viana and Oporto, and for the Advantage of
his Subjects Trading to Spain, been graciously pleased to signify his Pleasure to the Postmaster-General of Great Britain,
&c. to re-establish the Correspondence between England and Spain by the Way of Falmouth and Corunna: These are
therefore to give Notice, That two Pacquet-Boats will be settled on that Station, to carry Letters and Passengers between
Falmouth and Corunna once in every fourteen Days, and that Letters for Spain and the Northern Parts of Portugal, will be
taken at the General Post-Office in London, on Tuesday the 24th Instant, and from that Day on every other Tuesday.

-- 2 0 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, June 27, 1720)

These are to give Notice, that the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge, and from
Tunbridge-Wells to London, from Friday the lst of July next inclusive, during the Summer Season, as usual.

-- 2 0 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, August 8, 1720)

Whereas the Bristol Mail dispatched from thence on Saturday the 6th Instant, was this Morning between One and
Two a-Clock robbed upon the Road between Slow and Colebrooke by two Highwaymen, who took all the Letters out of the
Bath and Bristol Bags: These are therefore to give Notice, that whoever apprehends the said Persons concerned in this

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