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-- 4 6 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 24, 1746)

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.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 6 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, London, July 2, 1746)

Whereas the Post-Boy, bringing the Chester Mail from Fenny Stratford to Dunstable, was Yesterday, the lst Instant,
about Eleven of the Clock at Night, attacked on the Highway, near a Place called Hockliffe, otherwise Hockley, in the
County of Bedford, by a single Highwayman, who carried off the following Bags, viz. Warrington, Ormskirk, Wigan,
Chester, Wrexham, Coventry, Litchfield, Tamworth, Burton, Uttoxeter, Stafford, Stone, Holmes Chappel, Macclesfield,
Stockport, Drayton, Ruthin, Northop, Conway, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. The Person who committed this Robbery, is a
middle-siz'd Man, and had on a light brown colour'd loose Horseman's Coat, his Face cover'd with the Cape of his Coat,
and rode on a dark bay Mare, with a bald Face, and white Legs behind, and made off towards W oburne.
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 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 intitled to the same Reward of
Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 6 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, August 4, 1746)

Whereas the Post-Boy, bringing the West Mail from Hartford Bridge to Stains, was this Morning, between the Hours
of Twelve and One, attacked on the Highway, near a Place called the Hither Black Water, in the County of Surry, by a
single Highwayman, who carried off the following Bags, viz. Plymouth, Truro, St. Collumb, Bodmin, Camelford,
Oakhampton, Barnstable, Ashburton, Totness, Dartmouth, Launceston, Crewkerne, Ilminster, Axminster, Lyme, Chard,
Bridport, Taunton, Wellington, Minehead, Shaftsbury, Weymouth, Dorchester, Blandford, Salisbury, Wimborn, Christ
Church, Pool, Cranbourn, Fordingbridge, and Ringwood: The Person, who committed this Robbery, is a lusty Man, and
had on a brown-colour'd loose Horseman's Coat, and rode on a Bay Horse, with a bald Face, and his off Legs white, and
appears to have made his Way towards W eybridge, or Cob ban.
This is therefore 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 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 intitled to the same Reward
of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

-- 4 6 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, London, August 26, 1746)

Whereas certain Information has been made, upon Oath, before one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, that the
Chester Mail, of the 2d of July last, was robbed by a Person who goes, or has gone by the several Names of GABRIEL
TOMKINS, alias YOUNG GIBB, alias KIT JERVIS, alias CHRISTOPHER WOOD, alias UNKLE, alias RAWLINS, who has been
formerly a Smugler, and was some Years since employed as a Riding Surveyor in the Service of the Customs, and some
Years ago lived at the Town of Dartford, in the County of Kent: He is a Man of between Forty and Fifty Years of Age, of a
very swarthy Complexion, somewhat marked with the Small Pox, about Five Foot Nine or Ten Inches high, is a very well-
made Man, walks very upright, with large dark Eye-brows, which hang over his Eyes, and has formerly received a Wound in
his Left Arm with a Pistol or Musquet Bullet, of which some Mark or Appearance is left.

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