Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Bristol

Whereas upon a strict Examination of the Rider, together with the Circumstances, which are since found to agree with his Relation, it does appear that the Cross-Road Mail which constantly goes between Chester and Exeter, was really taken away from the Rider upon Sunday the 26th of September last, about Three a-Clock in the Morning, by two Men on Horseback, near Pensford, a Village about seven Miles from Bristol, in the Road to Wells, who carried off the entire Mail, which had in it the Bags of Letters of the several Towns of Chester, Whitchurch, Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth, Bewdley, Kidderminster, Worcester, Tewksbury, Gloucester, Wotten-Underidge, Bristol, Wells, Bridgwater, Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton and Exeter; and Expresses having been immediately, the very same Morning, sent away from Bristol to Chester and Exeter, to give Notice of the Accident to the several Post Towns mentioned, and their Dependencies, and no Notice having been as yet sent to the General Post-Office at London, of any Bank Notes, or other Notes, or Bills, that were in the said Mail, with Endorsements upon them, according to the Method proposed in the Advertisement so long published in the Prints, it is to be presumed that there were no such Notes, or Bills in the said Mail. This is to advertise, that whoever shall apprehend the Persons who stole the Mail, or either of them, so that they, or either of them, be convicted of the Robbery, that over and above the Money they will be entitled to from the County where the Robbery was committed, they will also be entitled to the Reward of £200 for each of them. And also, if either of the said Persons who have committed the said Robbery, or any of their Accomplices, shall come in and make a Discovery of the said Robbery, so that they or either of them be apprehended and convicted thereof, such Person will not only be entitled to the Rewards abovementioned, but also to His Majesty's most gracious Pardon, as formerly published in the Gazettes by His Majesty's special Command.