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Mail robbery. Bags were stolen between Epping and London

General Post Office, December 9, 1780
Raguin Code: NEWS –8005

THERE being great Reason to suspect that the Mail containing the following Bags of Letters was Yesterday Morning stolen out of the Mail Cart between Epping and London, in its Way to this Office, viz.

Norwich Downham Bishopstortford Fakenham
Thetford Harlow Windham Holt
Cambridge Lynn Epping Dereham
Bury Stoke Sawbridgeworth Ely
Newmarket Swaffham Rougham Ongar
Attleborough Saffron Walden Wells

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or shall cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the said Mail, will be entitled to a Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery whereby any one or more of the Persons concerned therein may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party or Parties, be entitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTH. TODD, Sec.