Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed near Maidenhead

Whereas the Post-Boy bringing the Bristol Mail to London, was set upon and Robbed by a single Person on Foot, about Nine o'Clock last Night, half a Mile before he came to Maidenhead; The Post-Master General thinks proper to make it publickly known, that whoever shall apprehend the Person who committed this Robbery, will, upon his Conviction be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, besides the Reward by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: Or if any one Accomplice in the said Robbery shall make a Discovery of the Person who committed the Fact, such Accomplice will be entitled to the said Reward of Two hundred Pounds, and also have the King's most Gracious Pardon.

The Person who committed this Robbery, is described to be a lusty Man, he carried off the following Bags, viz. Bristol, Bath, Bruton, Tinehead, Froom, Calne, Marlborough, Ramsbury, Newbury, Reading, Hungerford, Great-Bedwin, Uphaven, Netherhaven, Aimsbury, Lavington, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford, Warminster, Shipton Mallet, Pusey, Wells.