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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 May 2023), July 1744, trial of                      Charles                      Billingsly                                                                                (t17440728-6).<hr/><h2>Charles Billingsly, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 28th July 1744. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>302.                                                       Charles                      Billingsly                                                                                                           , of St. Sepulchres                                                       , was indicted for                                                          stealing two silver spoons, value 15 s.             the goods of                                                       Peter                      Holliday                                                                                                                                , June 15                  .</p>               <p>                                                Peter                   Holliday                                                                                        . The 15th of this month I lost two silver spoons out of a back room joining to a yard; the Prisoner carried one to Mr. Howston a silversmith in Fleet-Street, and the other to Mr. Mordaunt, a pawnbroker. The Prisoner was an errand boy                   to a young man who lodges in our own house, and took this opportunity (as he confessed at Guild-Hall) to go in at a sash window, and took them out of a corner cupboard.</p>               <p>Mr. Howston. The Prisoner brought this piece of a spoon to me to sell, I asked him how he came by it, he said his master sent him to sell it. I told him I would send for his master to know the truth of it, and when I told him that he ran away, and had the impudence to send another boy with the other part of the spoon.</p>               <p>                                                Richard                   Mordaunt                                                                                         . The Prisoner brought this spoon to me, and said, he wanted 2 s. upon it. I asked him who sent him with it; he said he brought it from one Green a cobler in the Old Bailey: said I, it is not usual for a cobler to have such a spoon as this, I will go to the person who owns it; he said there was no occasion for that, he would go and fetch him; he w ent away, but did not return to me: he has a mother who I believe is a chairwoman.</p>               <p>Q. What age are you?</p>               <p>Billingsly. I am eight years old - My father is in the hospital.                                     Guilty            .</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Transportation. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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