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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 October 2023), April 1714, trial of                      James                      Blundel                                                                               (t17140407-39).<hr/><h2>James Blundel, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 7th April 1714. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>                                                                  James                      Blundel                                                                                                         , (a little Boy                  ) of the Parish of Harrow on the Hill                                                      , was indicted for                                                          stealing 8 Yards of Lustring, and a Silk Hood, out of the House of                                              John                         Saucer                                                                                                                                                                     , on the 23d of February                   last. The Prisoner being a Parish Child of St. Andrews Holborn, was nurs'd next door to the Prosecutor's House, who fancying the Boy, took him upon liking to be a Servant                  , and while he and his Wife were abroad he was left at home to look to the House, and the Goods were gone; and they threatning to bring him to London to a Cunning Man, he run away to his Nurse, who protected him. The Boy upon his Trial said, That it was one                                  James                   Cock                                                                                        his Nurse's Grandson, who stole the Silk, and carry'd it home to his Grandmother, who receiv'd whatever they stole. Upon the whole, he was                                     acquitted             and the Prosecutor order'd to proceed against his Nurse.</p>            </div>
				
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