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Mail robbery. List of bills stolen during the mail robbery at Fenny Stratford

General Post Office, December 14-17, 1782
Raguin Code: NEWS –8211

WHEREAS the undermentioned Bills were in the Liverpool Bag that was stole out of the Mail at Fenny Stratford, on the Night of the 8th Instant; - Therefore this is to caution the Public at large not to give any Value upon said Bills, their Payment being stopped. It is moreover particularly requested, that in case any Person shall offer to negotiate any of them, that the Party may be stopped, and immediate Notice sent to the Post OFFICE, and to JOSEPH DENISON, and Co. of Jeffries Square, London.

(Note of the Editor: A list of 72 bills follows but has not been reproduced here. The place, date, drawer, term, order, on whom drawn and finally the sum are all included in that list)