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Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed between Colebrook and Longford

General Post-Office, London, January 18, 1721
Raguin Code: NEWS –2101

Whereas the Bristol Mail dispatched from thence on Monday the 16th Instant, was robbed this Morning between Four and Five a Clock, upon the Road between Colebrooke and Longford, by one Highwayman, who took several Letters out of the Bristol and Hungerford 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.