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--2010 NEWS (General-Post-Office, London, December 9, 172IJ)

All Persons are desired to take Notice, that the Cross-Road Letters from Bath, Bristol, Exeter, &c. which did usually
lie two Days at Gloucester in their Way to South-Wales, are now sent into all Parts of that Country, without any Loss of
Time; the same Advantage is gained three times a Week at Kidderminster, for the Benefit of the Traders of Stourbridge
and Birmingham; and as often at Chester for those of Lancashire. There is likewise such Regulations made in the Dispatch
of the Bye-Post between Chester and York, that a Letter sent from North-Wales, Cheshire, or Lancashire, into Yorkshire,
or any other of the Northern Countries, may now be answered four Days sooner than it ever was before; and to prevent all
further Impositions upon the Country, it is thought necessary to give this publick Notice, that the Postage of all Bye-Way, or
Cross-Road Letters, is no more than three Pence to any Place under fourscore Miles, and four Pence to any Place above
fourscore Miles for a single Letter, and so in Proportion for others passing to and from any Place within His Majesty's
Dominions of England and Wales; and further, that all Bye-Way and Cross-Road Letters are to be paid for at the Places
where they are delivered, Ship-Letters excepted, and not where they are put in, unless the Parties who put them in desires
it. All manner of Persons that have been any ways concerned in the fraudulent collecting, carrying or delivering of Letters,
contrary to the Act of Parliament, are, for their own sakes, desired to put an immediate Stop to those illegal Practices, or to
expect the Consequences of a vigorous Prosecution.
H. MARSHALL, Secretary.

-- 2101 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, January 18, 1721) {Julian Calendar. January 18, 172IJ}

Whereas the Bristol Mail dispatched from thence on Monday the 16th Instant, was robbed this Morning between Four
and Five a Clock, upon the Road between Colebrooke and Longford, by one Highwayman, who took several Letters out of
the Bristol and Hungerford Bags. These are therefore to give Notice, that whoever apprehends the said Person concerned
in this Robbery, so as to have him convicted of the same, shall receive a Reward of One Hundred Pounds, 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 Highwaymen.

-- 2102 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, February 6, 1721) {Julian Calendar. February 6, 172IJ}

Whereas the Bristol and Gloucester Mails coming to this Office were this Morning robbed between 3 and 4 a Clock,
on the Road near Slow, by one Highwayman, who took several Letters out of the said Mails, and so rode off towards
London; these are therefore to give Notice, that whoever apprehends the said Person concerned in this Robbery, so as to
have him convicted of the same, 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 Highwaymen.
N. B. The Person who robbed the Mails was a middle-sized Man, pretty thin, and rode upon a sorrel Horse.

-- 210 3 NEWS (General-Post-Office, London, June 27, 1721)

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 Saturday the lst of July next inclusive, during the Summer-Season, as usual.

-- 2 104 NEWS (Whitehall, August 9, 1721)

Whereas the Bristol Mail dispatched from thence on Monday the 7th Instant, was last Night, between Eleven and
Twelve a-Clock, robbed on the Road between Maidenhead and Slow, by one Highwayman, who carried off the Bath,
Bristol and Hungerford Bags; these are therefore to give Notice, that whoever apprehends the said Person concerned in
this Robbery, so as to have him convicted of the same, 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 Highwaymen;
and if any one of his Accomplices shall discover the Offender in the Manner aforesaid, such Person so making the
Discovery, shall have the said Reward of £100 and also His Majesty's Pardon. CARTERET.

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