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--3701 NEWS (General Post Office, June 28, 1737)

These are to give Notice, That the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London: To begin this Night, and to continue during the Summer Season, as usual.

-- 3 7 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, October 14, 1737)

Whereas the Post-Boy bringing the Gainsborough Mail or Bag of Letters from Gainsborough to Newark, on
Wednesday Evening last, between Five and Six o'Clock, was robbed by one Foot Pad in Knaish Lane, about three Miles on
this Side of Gainsborough, who took from him the said Mail or Bag of Letters, which contained all the Letters sent that
Day from Gainsborough for London. The Postmaster General thinks proper to make it publickly known, that whoever shall
apprehend the Person who committed this Robbery, will, upon his Conviction, be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred
Pounds, to be paid by the Receiver General of the Revenue of the Post Office, over and above the Reward by Act of
Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen. And if any Accomplice in the said Robbery shall discover and apprehend the
Person who committed the same, so as he may be convicted, such Accomplice will be entitled to the said Reward of Two
Hundred Pounds, and also have the King's most gracious Pardon.
Note, The Person who committed this Robbery was a middle-aged Man, low and broad set, with his own brown and
lank Hair, a broad Face, and swarthy Complexion, wearing a dark colour'd Coat and Stockings, and a light Wastcoat. There
was another Person at the same Time on the Road, near the Place where the Robbery was committed, supposed to be a
Confederate, on a Bay Horse, with a light colour'd Great Coat.
THO. ROBINSON, Secretary.

-- 3 8 0 1 NEWS (General Post Office, February22, 1738) {Julian Calendar. February 22, 1737}
Whereas the Post Boy bringing the Bristol Mail to London, was set upon and robbed by a single Person on Foot,
Yesterday about Seven o'Clock in the Evening, at the End of Sunning Lane, two Miles on this Side of Reading. The
Postmaster General thinks proper to make it publickly known, that whoever shall apprehend the Person who committed
this Robbery, will, upon Conviction, be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, besides the Reward by Act of
Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen; or if any Accomplice in the said Robbery shall make a Discovery of the
Person who committed the Fact, such Accomplice will be entitled to the said Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also
have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon. The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be a middle siz'd Man,
had on a great Riding Coat, with a whitish Velvet or Plush Cape; he carried off the Horse and Mail, which Mail contained
the following Bags.

Bristol, Newbury, Amsbury, Froome,
Bath, Reading, Lavington, Shipton Mallett,
Chippenham, Hungerford, Tinhead, Bruton,
Calne, Great Beding, Westbury, \.lel ls.
Devizes, Pewsey, \.larmi nster,
Marlborough, Uphaven, Troubridge,
Ramsbury, Netherhaven, Bradford,

-- 3 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, June 24, 1738)

These are to give Notice, That the Post will go every Night (Sundays excepted) from London to Tunbridge Wells, and
from Tunbridge Wells to London. To begin on Monday next, the 26th Instant, and continue during the Summer Season, as
usual.

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