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Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make a Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended
and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intituled to the same Reward
of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 4 0 2 NEWS (General-Post-Office, London, February 8, 1744) {Julian Calendar. February 8, 1743}

WHEREAS the Post-Boy, going out with the West-Mail from this Office, was this Morning, between Five and Six
o'Clock, attack'd on the Highway at the Staling Place, on the other Side of Turnham-Green, by a single Highwayman, who
took the said Post-Boy into a Field, adjoining to the Road, and open'd the Mail, and carried off the Exeter and Plymouth
Bags: The Person who committed this Robbery is a middle-siz'd Man, and had on a blue Great Coat, with his Hat tied over
his Head; and he rode on a Sorrel Horse with a white Face, about fourteen Hands high, and made off for Acton, the Oxford
Road.
This therefore is to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the Person who committed this Robbery, will be intitled 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 or Persons, whether Accomplice in
the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make a Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be
apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be entitled to the
same Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 4 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, February 25, 1744) {Julian Calendar. February 25, 1743}

Whereas an anonymous Letter, dated the 22d Instant, was sent by the Penny Post, and directed to me, as Secretary of
this Office: This is to acquaint the Person who wrote the same, that if he will discover and make himself known to me, and
fully communicate the several Particulars of what he suggests, he may depend upon all the Safety and Secrecy he may or
can require, in regard to his Person, at the same Time that I am authorized to assure him that he may also depend upon all
the Encouragements he can reasonably expect as a Reward for the Service his Information may be of.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 4 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, London, June 23, 1744)

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 the 25th Instant, and to continue during the Summer Season as
usual.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 4 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, July 12, 1744)

Post-Chaises between London and Oxford, by the Way of Maidenhead and Nettlebed.

This is to acquaint the Publick, that the several Post-Masters on the Road between London and Oxford, are ready to
furnish Gentlemen and others with Post-Chaises, safe, easy, and well secured from the Weather, upon as short a Warning
as for Post Horses, at any Hour, either of the Day or Night. Gentlemen who have Occasion to go Post on the above Roads,
are desired to apply to Mr. William Miller, Post-Master, at the White Bear in Piccadilly.
A Post-Chaise may be had at any of the Stages on the Road to Oxford, by the Way of Maidenhead and Nettlebed, to
go Part, or all the Way, for one or more Stages, for those who do not chuse to travel in the Night.

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