Mail robbery. Bristol and Gloucester mail stolen near Hounslow
Whereas the Post Boy bringing the Bristol and Gloucester Mails to London, was set upon and robbed by a single Person on Foot, between Two and Three a Clock this Morning, two Miles before he came to Hounslow:
The Post Master General thinks proper to make it publicly known, that whoever shall apprehend the Person who committed this Robbery, will upon his Conviction be intitled 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 intitled to the said Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have the King's most gracious Pardon.
The Person who committed the Robbery was mask'd, and is described to be a little Man in a whitish Shag Coat, with black Stockings, and seem'd to have a Wig on.
He carried off the following Bags.
Bristol | Froome | Tewxbury | Haverfordwest |
Bath | Devizes | Ledbury | Tenby |
Chippenham | Nettlebed | Ross | Carmarthen |
Caln | Wallingford | Hereford | Pembroke |
Marlborough | Abingdon | Leominster | Swanzey |
Newbury | Wantage | Prestein | Usk |
Hungerford | Farringdon | Stroud | Neath |
Ramsbury | Northleach | Landilo | Cardiff |
Reading | Leachlade | Hay | Abergavenny |
Henley | Highworth | Llandovery | Monmouth |
Maidenhead | Cirencester | Cardigan | |
Windsor | Gloucester | Brecon |