Hold-up at Blackwater
NOTES and QUERIES Sept 18, 1846 p229 (no.38)
POST-BAGS -- A reward of 200L was offered by the Postmaster General, London, August 4. 1746 for the apprehension and conviction of the person who committed the robbery undermentioned: --
WHEREAS the Post Boy bringing the West Mail from Hartford-Bridge to Stains was this morning, between the Hours of Twelve and One, attackd on the Highway, near a place called Hither Black Water, in the County of Surrey, by a single Highwayman, whocarrying off the following bags viz. Plymouth, Truro, St Columb, Bodmin, Camelford, Oakhampton, Barnstaple, Ashburton, Totnes, Dartford, Launceston, Crewkerne, Ilminster, Axminster, Lyme, Chard, Bridport, Taunton, Wellington, Minehead, Shaftesbury, Weymouth, Dorchester, Blandford, Salisbury, Wimbourne, Christ-Church, Pool, Cranbourn, Fordingbridge and Ringwood...
Perhaps some of your correspondants would be good enough to tell me the size of the post-bags used at that period.
TORQUAY: J. PETHERICK
Other than the entries in the Yateley Parish burial registers which may or may not be the results of hold-ups by highwaymen the above extract from the Gentleman's Magazine is the only documentary evidence of a mail coach being robbed by a highwayman in or near the Parish of Yateley
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