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Mail robbery. Mail stolen at Methwold in Norfolk

General Post-Office, January 9, 1788
Raguin Code: NEWS –8801

THE Bag of Letters from Lynn for London of Monday the 7th Instant, which should have arrived at this Office Yesterday, and also the Bye-Bags, with the Letters from Brandon, Thetford, Bury, Newmarket, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and all Parts of the North, were stolen out of the Mail-Cart, whilst the Post-Boy stopt to change Horses at the Door of the Swan Public-House at Methwold in Norfolk, about Seven o'Clock on Monday Evening, the said 7th Instant.

Whoever will apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the said Bags, will be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby 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, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.