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              MT NAM LCM-146-35 · Item · 07/10/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Joannes de Marco and various others are accused of the murder of Cap. Giovanni Pasquale on his ship, which vessel was engaged in Corso in the Golfo di Sfachez off the coast of Barbary, and specifically when it was moored at Cagliari in the Kingdom of Sardinia. Joannes de Marco and Hieronimus Pollacco are hanged in public and then their bodies torn from into four parts and each part affixed in the usual places. Antonius Manes, Honoratus Melem, and Carolum Labergia were sentenced to row for life. Nicolaus Poloroditi, Antonius Moso, and Salvatore Thesorere sentenced to row for 5 years.

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              MT NAM LCM-142-17 · Item · 03/09/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Giovanni Paulo Farrugia, soldier aboard the Orders's San Petro formally testifies that after they had captured six vessels, several soldiers went aboard one of the enemy vessels and he was attacked by a fellow soldier called Domizio Rizzo, a Sicilian from the same San Pietro.

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              MT NAM LCM-185-47 · Item · 28/04/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Felix Mahnuc, Domenico Saliba and Giacobo Scogliaricci from Burmula confirm that they received missive letters concerning payment on behalf of Don Alvaro Maturabios by way of his representative Giovanni Francesco Gaucio from Victoriosa. Payment was to be made for a journey which Felix and the others promised to undertake to Marsala on a vessel captained by Antonio Grima, and there to join Maturabios' corsairing venture. The notary was Hyacinthos de Avolio.

              [Pro Tommaso San Blasio]
              MT NAM LCM-143-08 · Item · 23/03/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              First few folios missing. Document commences with the interrogation of witnesses. Witnesses confirm that the document presented in Greek letters and language is in fact written by the Venetian Consul of the island of Milo, Filippo Beni. Other statements concerning the capture of a pollacca captained by a certain Tommaso are presented. The pollacca was illegally captured and looted during corso by the vessel of the Frenchman Franciscus de Robertis Seglian. Seglian is accused of falsely claiming that the captured loot belonged to Turks, when it actually belonged to Greek Christians. The case was then referred by the MCC to the TRA. The claim was not upheld and Seglian was freed.

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              [Pro Jainetto Abela]
              MT NAM LCM-010-70 · Item
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Appeal against a sentence pronounced against Jainetto Abela in favour of Gandolfo Ari concerning the management of finaces of their joint corsairing venture.

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              [Pro Filippo Bologna]
              MT NAM LCM-186-21 · Item · 25/09/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Filippo Bologna who had been sentenced to be exiled from Malta for undisclosed crimes requests to be kept in the prisons of the Court until the galley of Cav. De Crenville leaves on Corso.

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              Contra Paulum Pullicino
              MT NAM LCM-141-24 · Item · 10/07/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Paulo Pullicino is accused of refusing to show up for service on the corsairing vessel of the captain Cav. Fra Francesco Roberti Scillian despite having taken payment. The corsairing vessel is named as the San Giovanni Battista. He is therefore considered a fugitive and deserter. Sentenced to three years' rowing on the Order's galley.

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              MT NAM LCM-141-26 · Item · 14/07/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Giovanni Seychel is accused of not showing up for service on the corsairing venture of Cav. Gerento on the vessel captained by Cap. Gulielmo Buscau, despite having received payment. He is further accused of having resisted capture and wounding people in his escape. Sentenced to two years' rowing on the Order's galleys. Sentence appealed but result not recorded.

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              MT NAM LCM-317-25 · Item · 07/05/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Franciscus Pelini and Franciscus di Natale, engaged to serve on the Order's galley San Johannes, and Andrea Bonavia, engaged to serve on the corsairing vessel named Il Santissimo Crocifisso of Cap. Anastasio Seordini are accused of failing to show up for duty. Pelini had escaped in Maiorca, and Di Natale in Alicante. Bonavia claimes to have also been engaged on the Santa Elisabetta. Pelini was senteneced to three years' rowing with chained feet for three years, Di Natale was sentenced to two years' community service due to his young age, and Bonavia for three years' community service due to his old age.

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              Contra Ferrantem Matasino
              MT NAM LCM-146-05 · Item · 14/01/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Ferrante Matasino is accused of the following crimes: he abused of his friendship with Carlo Cassia to procure a key to his bottega and stole large quantities of mecco, tabacco, pepe, bugasino, sapone etc. He is also accused of other thefts. He is also accused of desertion for not presenting himself for service on a corsair vessel which he had contracted to join. He is sentenced to five years' rowing.

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              MT NAM LCM-010-02 · Item · 25/10/1571
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Johannes Fomighomeno explains that he had been made the procurator of Mario De Vaglieri, who had departed from the islands on piracy but had been captured and died, leaving his underage son as universal heir. Farrugia applies to become legal tutor of the child.

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              MT NAM LCM-010-15 · Item · 17/10/1578
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Various testimonies collected from crew members of the San Johannes concerning a chest of sacks of gold coins that were discovered on an overcome enemy ship and how it had been divided. This division was illegal and being considered as theft. Watermark visible on some folios.

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              Contra Paulum Bugdano
              MT NAM LCM-143-14 · Item · 18/06/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Introductory folios missing. Document commences with examination of witnesses. Fra Franciscus de Robertis Scillitans had loaned Paulus Bagdano some money in return for his services abroad on Scillitans's vessel on Corso in the Levant, but Bagdano had failed to satisfy the terms of the agreement. In his interrogation Bagdano says he was a shoemaker who occasionally worked as a soldier. It was proven that Bagdano had been unwell and so unable to sail when the ship had left and he was liberated.

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              [Contra Marco de Stefano]
              MT NAM LCM-142-19 · Item · 03/07/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Marco sive Marchietto de Stefano is accused of hindering a military operation. He was a pilot on the Santa Ubaldesca and failed to follow orders to sail alongside the other five galleys towards St Demetrius Point after immediately leaving port. He is therefore accused of insubordination. A lot of information is available about the Order's fleet of six galleys at this point in time. Very detailed witness statements. He was sentenced to three years' exile from Malta.

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              MT NAM LCM-141-27 · Item · 18/07/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Cap. Claudio Uzzino, Alberto de Leonardo, Orazio Chercopo, Marino Sardena, Simone Delelba, Giulio Testa, Gregorio de Battista Janvensen, Stefano Pullicino, Giovanni Condet, Francesco Antonio from Naples, Giacobo de Sangiavato, Leonardo Gambin and Stefano d'Anello are accused of sailing out of port on the brigantino San Giuseppe and deserted at various points of the journey. None were condemned.

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              MT NAM LCM-317-41 · Item · 13/08/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Salvatore Hagius is accused of desertion from the corsairing crew of the sambechhino of Cap. Aloysius Gioubert during the period of quarantine and of going into the countryside into the company of non-infected persons. He had gone to Luqa, where he was tracked down and eventually arrested, although not before seeking refuge in the church and then breaking into an adjoining house of the family Camenzuli, who were then also arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the fugitive. The ship had captured a saica departed from Alexandria with riso, cafe, telaria, lino and other merchandise. Hagius was sentenced to ten years' rowing with chained feet.

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              MT NAM LCM-317-46 · Item · 07/09/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Cap. Giovnni Borg, Franciscus Narli, Ignazio Moroso, Petrus Pico, Giacinto Giocolar, and Antonius Belluso of the crew of the vessel San Paulus e l'Immacolata Concezzione are accused of a variety of crimes, including fraud, assault on the friendly vessel of Cap. Tourtin, rape and illegal capture of Christians. Other documents in the case file: lists of prizes sold in the east, daily log books, several witness statments etc. Tha variety of the documents provided allow for an in-depth understanding of the corsairing process and this document merits further focused study.

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