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from whom he made his escape , and is run away and fled from justice: AND
WHEREAS the said Edward Pryor hath since charged the said Robert Belson on oath,
before Charles Fyshe Palmer, Esq., one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and
for the said County of Berks, on a violent suspicion of having committed the said
offences: Therefore notice is hereby given, That if any person or persons will
apprehend and secure the said Robert Belson, and cause him to be delivered to the
said Edward Pryor, Jasper Blandford and William Monk, or either of them, so that he
may be brought to justice, and dealt with according to law, shall receive a Reward of
Two Guineas, to be paid by Mr. Richards, Attorney, in Wokingham.
NOTE. The said Belson is about the age of 25 or 26 years, about five feet ten inches
high, of a fair complexion, wears his own light brown hair and usually wears a brown
cloth coat with metal buttons, a red waistcoat and leather breeches, and is remarkably
fond of Cock fighting.
NOTE ALSO. By the Acts of Parliament there is a Reward of £40 for taking and
convicting a Burglar, and a certificate of exemption from parish offices, and may be
taken up without a warrant.

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Fri 29 April
They write from Jamaica, that there are two pirates cruising off the East end of
Hispaniola, who plunder all ships and vessels they meet with. One is a sloop, which
mounts eight carriage guns, besides swivels, & c. and is manned with sailors of
different nations; the other is a schooner of six guns. Chiefly manned by Irish and
Spanish seamen. Admiral Rodney has dispatched two frigates in quest of these rovers.

WOKINGHAM
Yesterday was married at Eton in the county of Bucks, Miss Pote of that place, to
Mr. Wise, jun. Attorney at Law, at Wokingham.

On Wednesday last a child about 6 years old, of Henley, Oxon, accidently fell into
the Arlington springs in that town, swam three or four hundred yards underground,
and was taken out alive without any hurt. There some people saw the child fall in, and
immediately ran to the end of the spring, which emptied itself into the Thames, and by
that means, most providentially saved its life.

Yesterday morning, between eleven and twelve, the convicts under sentence of
death in the New gaol, Southwark, were conveyed from thence to Kennington-
common, and there executed pursuant to their sentence. They were attended at the
gallows by the Rev. Mr. Dyer, of St. George’s. The woman who was to have suffered
at the same time, received a reprieve this morning, and is to be transported for life.

A few days since one Nooke, a lad about twelve years old, fell into a furnace of
boiling wort, and was scalded to death, at the sign of the Duke’s Head, a public-house
at Horsely-heath, Wilts.

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Fri 6 May
ROBERT HUNT
BOOT and SHOE MAKER
BROAD STREET, WOKINGHAM
Returns his most grateful Thanks to hid Friends and Customers, who have been
pleased to employ him; and humbly begs a continuance of their Favours offering them

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