Mail robbery. Person bought a tankard and paid with a stolen bank post bill

Whereas a Person of about Six Feet high, Fifty Years of Age, of a Swarthy Complexion, much pitted with the Small Pox, and wore a darkish coloured Coat, and a brown Bob Wig, came last Night, about Six of the Clock, to the Shop of Mr. Thomas Harding, Goldsmith, in the Minories, and bought of him a straight bodied Silver Tankard, Weight 25 oz. 18 dwt. with the Letters C. D. marked, by his Desire, on the Handle thereof; and the said Person having given, in Payment, for the said Tankard, a Bank Post Bill, which was taken out of the Cirencester Mail, which was robbed on the 18th of April, 1751, and indorsed the said Bank Post Bill by the Name of Charles Dew.

This is therefore to give Notice to all Goldsmiths and others, to whom the said Tankard may be offered in Sale, that whoever apprehends, or causes to be apprehended the Person above described, who is strongly suspected of having been a Principal, or an Accomplice in the said Robbery, shall, upon Conviction, be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.