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Mail robbery. Bristol and Gloucester mail robbed near Slow

General Post-Office, London, February 6, 1721
Raguin Code: NEWS –2102

Whereas the Bristol and Gloucester Mails coming to this Office were this Morning robbed between 3 and 4 a Clock, on the Road near Slow, by one Highwayman, who took several Letters out of the said Mails, and so rode off towards London; 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 £100 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 robbed the Mails was a middle-sized Man, pretty thin, and rode upon a sorrel Horse.