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Listing of Notices 1740 to 1749

References at right are the codes from the Raguin book.

Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed near Knightsbridge
General Post-Office, April 2, 1740
NEWS –4002
Mail robbery. Western and Portsmouth mail robbed near Bagshot
General Post Office, London, April 4, 1740
NEWS –4003
Scotland. Proper postage must be paid otherwise the letters cannot be forwarded
General Post-Office, Dublin, May 28, 1740
NEWS –4004
Writer of a letter is requested to make himself known
Dublin, June 3, 1740
NEWS –4005
Mail robbery. North mail robbed near Ware
General Post-Office, London, June 16, 1740
NEWS –4006
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, London, June 27, 1740
NEWS –4007
A Post to go every day (Sunday excepted) to Hounslow for the continuance of the camp there
General Post Office, London, July 2, 1740
NEWS –4008
England. Extension of the Post
General Post-Office, London, June 10, 1741
NEWS –4101
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General-Post-Office, London, June 23, 1741
NEWS –4102
List of towns receiving a Post every night (Sunday excepted)
General Post-Office, London, July 1, 1741
NEWS –4103
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, London, June 22, 1742
NEWS –4201
Foreign letters. They have to be prepaid except to France, Holland & Flanders
General Post Office, London, July 3, 1742
NEWS –4202
Secretary to the Post Office. George Shelvocke appointed to replace Mr. Barbutt
Whitehall, July 27, 1742
NEWS –4203
Post chaise between London and Bath
General-Post-Office, London, September 29, 1742
NEWS –4204
Foreign Letters. They have to be prepaid except to France, Holland & Flanders
General Post Office, Dublin, October 14, 1742
NEWS –4205
Post chaise between London and Harwich
General Post-Office, London, January 15, 1743
NEWS –4301
Germany, Italy, other countries via Holland, France or Flanders. Postal rates
General Post Office, London, March 10, 1743
NEWS –4302
Mail robbery. The Post Boy was robbed near Barnstaple
General Post-Office, London, June 8, 1743
NEWS –4303
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, London, June 25, 1743
NEWS –4304
Post chaise between London and York and between London and Northampton
General Post-Office, July 23, 1743
NEWS –4305
Post chaise between London and Dover and between London and Tunbridge Wells
General Post-Office, London, August 18, 1743
NEWS –4306
Austrian Netherlands. Letters to members of the British army to be sent free of foreign postage
General Post-Office, London, October 24, 1743
NEWS –4307
Post chaise between London and Salisbury
General Post-Office, November 1, 1743
NEWS –4308
Mail robbery. North mail robbed between Hundington and Stilton
General-Post-Office, London, January 12, 1744
NEWS –4401
Mail robbery. West mail robbed near Turnham Green
General-Post-Office, London, February 8, 1744
NEWS –4402
Writer of a letter to the Secretary is requested to identify himself
General Post-Office, February 25, 1744
NEWS –4403
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, London, June 23, 1744
NEWS –4404
Post Chaise between London and Oxford by way of Maidenhead and Nettlebed
General Post-Office, London, July 12, 1744
NEWS –4405
Post Chaise between London and Norwich and between London and Cambridge
General Post-Office, London, July 25, 1744
NEWS –4406
France. Treaty of Utrecht. No communication between Dover and Calais
General Post-Office, London, September 14, 1744
NEWS –4407
Post Chaise between London and Portsmouth
General Post-Office, London, September 22, 1744
NEWS –4408
Flanders. New schedule
General Post-Office, October 19, 1744
NEWS –4409
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, June 22, 1745
NEWS –4501
Flanders. Mail to be directed via Holland
General Post-Office, August 24, 1745
NEWS –4502
Illegal conveyance of the mail. A warning
General Post Office, London, November 12, 1745
NEWS –4503
West Indies. Rates and schedule
General Post-Office, London, November 12, 1745
NEWS –4504
Levant. Schedule of the mail
General-Post-Office, February 28, 1746
NEWS –4601
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, June 24, 1746
NEWS –4602
Mail robbery. Chester mail robbed near Hocklet in the county of Bedford
General Post Office, London, July 2, 1746
NEWS –4603
Mail robbery. West mail robbed near Hither Black Water in the county of Surrey
General Post-Office, London, August 4, 1746
NEWS –4604
Mail robbery. Description of Gabriel Tomkins, robber of the Chester mail
General Post-Office, London, August 26, 1746
NEWS –4605
Mail robbery. Description of Gabriel Tomkins, robber of the Chester mail
General Post-Office, London, September 1, 1746
NEWS –4606
Mail robbery. Vincent Matthews is charged in the robbery of the West mail of February 8, 1743
General Post-Office, London, December 4, 1746
NEWS –4607
Mail robbery. Chester mail robbed near St. Alban's
General Post-Office, London, April 22, 1747
NEWS –4701
Mail robbery. Chester mail. Description of the robbers
General Post-Office, London, April 30, 1747
NEWS –4702
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, London, June 24, 1747
NEWS –4703
Mail robbery. William and Thomas Bibbie escaped from jail
General Post Office, London, July 10, 1747
NEWS –4704
Mail robbery. William Bibbie killed while escaping. Thomas Bibbie still at large
General Post Office, London, July 17, 1747
NEWS –4705
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, June 21, 1748
NEWS –4801
France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey & Minorca. New schedule
General Post Office, July 12, 1748
NEWS –4802
Mail robbery. West Mail robbed near Basingstoke
General Post-Office, London, December 2, 1748
NEWS –4803
Additional towns receiving mail three or six times a week
General Post-Office, December 17, 1748
NEWS –4804
Minorca. Mail will be carried via Marseilles as in former times of peace
General Post Office, December 17, 1748
NEWS –4805
Austrian Netherlands, Flanders. Mail will go every Monday and Friday beginning January 9th
General Post-Office, December 31, 1748
NEWS –4806
Mail robbery. Swaffham mail robbed between Swaffham to Thetford
General Post-Office, London, January 16, 1749
NEWS –4901
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General-Post-Office, June 24, 1749
NEWS –4902
Mail robbery. Thomas Munns apprehended
General Post-Office, July 21, 1749
NEWS –4903