Mail robbery. Chester mail robbed near Hocklet in the county of Bedford

Whereas the Post-Boy, bringing the Chester Mail from Fenny Stratford to Dunstable, was Yesterday, the 1st Instant, about Eleven of the Clock at Night, attacked on the Highway, near a Place called Hockliffe, otherwise Hockley, in the County of Bedford, by a single Highwayman, who carried off the following Bags, viz. Warrington, Ormskirk, Wigan, Chester, Wrexham, Coventry, Litchfield, Tamworth, Burton, Uttoxeter, Stafford, Stone, Holmes Chappel, Macclesfield, Stockport, Drayton, Ruthin, Northop, Conway, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. The Person who committed this Robbery, is a middle-siz'd Man, and had on a light brown colour'd loose Horseman's Coat, his Face cover'd with the Cape of his Coat, and rode on a dark bay Mare, with a bald Face, and white Legs behind, and made off towards Woburne.

This therefore is to give Notice, that whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this Robbery, will be intitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: Or if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.