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Giovanni Zammit accuses Giovanni Schocco of threatening him with violence and trying to break into his home with a sword. He was sentenced to one year's service without stipend on the Order's galleys.

Introductory folios missing. Document commences with interrogation of witnesses. Mario Haxisa was seriously wounded in the head, with danger to her life. Alberto Calleja was identified as the aggressor and fines six uncia.

Aloysius Falsuni (knows as 'Firlis') is accused of breaking the terms of his exile and is sentenced to three years' rowing.

Angelo Vella is accused of breaching the terms of his exile from Malta and returning to the island. Copy of the 02/01/1641 sentence included. No sentence included.

Antoninus Policascho, buonavoglia rower on the San Petrus, is accused of desertion for failing to show up for duty when the galley left the islands. Witness statements. Sentenced to three years' rowing on the galleys.

Antonio Saraniti and Mario Benaya are found guilty of sodomy and Vincentio Lopizzuto of complicity. They were discovered in a guardiola along the walls close to Jews' Gate. Saraniti and Benaya are sentenced to be extrangulated and their bodies burnt into ashes and so disposed of. Lopizzuto was to be beaten in public and then to row for life.

Antonino de Cara, rower on the Santa Ubaldesca, is accused of desertion. He is sentenced to three years' rowing.

Cap. Pietrus 'Pierri' Masstic had accused Antonum Venel of provoking a duel but retracted his accusation and Venel was freed.

Bartholomeus de Mario is accused of desertion for not reporting on duty aboard the Santa Maria. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.

Bernardo Tabone, buonvaoglia on the San Ubaldesca, is accused of desertion from service and of seeking escape on the vessel captained by Cap. Aloysio Ruggio. Cap. Ruggio is fined 50 uncia. No sentence given for Tabone.

The Bali Fra Antonius Scalamonti accuses the French Masseus Rosso and Cap. Josephus Arnaud, and Johannes Maria Cefai of false witness. They are accused of giving false witness both before the Notary Thomaso Maranoand again in court before Notary Paulus D'Arena. They claimed that 11 years before they had been on the vessel Sant'Antonius of Cap. Josephus Arnaud on the way to Venice were they loaded goods including several antenni belonging to Scalamonti, loaded aboard by Fra Petrus Diotallevi. They are accused of giving false witness concerning a shipwreck to cover for the fact that they had sold off some of the antennae to various persons. The accused were found innocent and acquitted.

Mariuzza Gallo accuses Carolus Flu of various insults made by him towards her person, but later retracts the accusation.

The buonavoglia rower of the Galera Capitanea Chrispinus Grima is accused of stealing from the galley and its crew after the galley was damaged in a storm. He was acquitted.

The Frenchman Cosmum Martinet, married in Malta and resident in Valletta, is accused of fraudulently claiming he had permission to leave the island and embarking onto a vessel bound to foreign lands from an unusual place. He was escaping the service of his employer the Baglio Duplesi. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Damiano Attard from Dingli is accused of assaulting Filippo Attard from Rabat at the tavern of Domenico Camilleri in Valletta. He was fined two uncia.

Introductory folios missing. Case commences with the interrogation of witnesses. It appears that Domenico Bonanno was being accused of financial fraud and of selling wood belonging to the Order. He was found guilty and sentenced to four years' rowing. Case continues in document 18.

Domenicus Gallo, voluntary rower on the San Nicola, is accused of desertion by not showing up for duty as requested. Sentenced to three years' rowing with no pay and with bound feet.

Dominicus Miraglia, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Capitanea, is accused of desertion for failing to report for duty for the Corso. He was sentenced to three years' rowing. Visible watermark.

Domenico Muscat was ordered to be incarcerated by the MCC in relation to debts owed to Giovanni Paolo Buttigieg. He however resisted arrest and even attacked the officers of the law sent to arrest him. He was sentenced to be given two lashes in public.

Giulio Ros, and Martino Mancarella are accused of buying meat-stuffs from Frabrizio Rochello despite knowing that he was a servant of Andrea Falzon and had no cows of his own and so being in a position to assume theft. Fabrizio was sentenced to 50 lashes in public for the theft, but Ros and Mancarella were cleared of any wrongdoing.