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Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed between Harehatch and Maidenhead

General-Post-Office, London, September 5, 1720
Raguin Code: NEWS –2006

Whereas the Bristol Mail dispatched from thence on Saturday the 3d Instant, was last Night between 11 and 12 a Clock robbed upon the Road between Harehatch and Maidenhead, by one Highwayman, who took several Letters out of the Bath and Bristol 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.

N. B. The Person who committed this Robbery was mounted on a black Horse.