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Mail robbery. West mail robbed on Black Water Heath

General Post Office, July 29, 1751
Raguin Code: NEWS –5103

Whereas the Post-Boy bringing the West Mail to this Office, was this Morning, between One and Two of the Clock, on Black Water Heath, attacked and robbed, by a single Highwayman, mounted on a Brown Horse or Mare, who took out of the said Mail, and carried off the following Bags of Letters, Viz.

Plymouth, Ashburton, Chard, Bridport,
Exeter, Dartmouth, Ilminster, Wimborne,
Truro, Launceston, Shaftsbury, Christchurch,
St. Columb, Honiton, Salisbury, Pool,
Bodmin, Tiverton, Dorchester, Cranborne,
Camelford, Crewkerne, Weymouth, Fordingbridge,
Oakhampton, Taunton, Blandford, Ringwood,
Barnstaple, Wellington, Lyme, Basingstoke, and
Totnes, Minehead, Axminster, Whitchurch.

The Person who committed this Robbery, was a middle sized Man, and had on a brown Duffie Surtout Coat, and rode on a Brown Horse or Mare, about Fourteen Hands high.

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 entitled 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.