Item 31 - De furto retis et periusio contra Cap. Josephum Bonello

Giuseppe Bonello is accused that during the month of Augusti, being captain of an armed vessel here in Malyta called "Madonna delle Grazie, e Santi Pietro e Paolo" for the corso, sailed from Malta for the same corso under the flag of the Order, sailed in the area of Barbary, came across and captured many vessels sailing from the East and from regions suspect of contagion, and of then sailing to Sicily to the coast of Mallara and forcing himself onto the vessel of Sicilian sailors, in spite of the danger of contagion, and exchanging goods with them for fish, and then of coming across the vacated boats of the same sailors and stealing from them their nets. He was exiled from all of Malta for one whole and continuous year.