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Mail robbery. Bristol and Gloucester mail stolen near Hounslow

General Post-Office, London, April 24, 1732
Raguin Code: NEWS –3202

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