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Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed between Slow and Colebrooke

General Post-Office, London, August 8, 1720
Raguin Code: NEWS –2005

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 Robbery, or either of them, so as to have them 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; and if either of the said 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 was mounted upon a black Horse, and the other upon a bay Horse.