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Andrea Falson, Mattheo Agius, Domenicus Azzopardi, Mattheolo Debono, and Gregorio Coyacono of monopoly. They are accused of working together to buy quantities of beef and veal in both Malta and Gozo as well imported from Sicily, generating a false scarcity, and then selling their meat at whatever price they desired. Moreover they agreed to undercut external offers to buy the meat from the other butchers if a third party offered to buy it for less than the expected price. Various witnesses including buthcers were interrogated. Copies of the licence to keep a butcher's shop issued to all the involved butchers included. The sentence of the MCC is not present (17/04/1640) but it seems that they were acquitted, or confirmed in their acquittal by a later sentence on appeal of the ACA (22/08/1640). By a special decree of the Grandmaster (not included, 24/04/1641), Judge Anastasius Surdo was appointed to hear the case again.

Stephanus Bardagner, a Frenchman known as "Larosa" is accused of theft of jewelry, and specifically that he went to the house of Angelica Metaxi in the Manderaggio of Valletta with the excuse of inviting her to dinner together with her husband Giovanni to dinner, and while there he took and stole several pieces of jewelry (described). He was sentenced to row for life.

The spouses Salvo and Gratia Agius are accused of stealing grain from the mill of Francesco Felice in Valletta.

Giovanni Maria Aquilina is accused of murdering Giacobo Schembri at the request of Schembri's wife Innocenza. He was first arraigned before the Curia Gubernatorialis of Gozo, and then transferred to the Magna Curia Castellania to undergo interrogation under torture (described). They had followed Giacobo to the coastline of Marsalforn and precisely to the area of Ghar Cuacla, where he was collecting patelli, and there Giovanni Maria struck him with a stone and then threw the corpse into the sea. They were both found guilty: Aquilina was sentenced to hang and Schembri to exile from Malta and Gozo for life.

Gratius Bellina, buonavoglia rower, is accused of bearing arms against the law. Witness statements collected. He is sentenced to five-years rowing.

The buonavoglia rower Dominicum Portelli is accused of desertion for not reporting for duty aboard the galley Santa Maria del Rosario. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.

Cintius Farrugia is accused of theft and specifically that he (and potentially any accomplices he might have had) had stolen various items of clothing and cloth (described) from the house of Pascuila Greg in Valletta. Interrogation of witnesses. Sentence not included.

Notice that the sentence given against the Sicilian Antonius Landolina, found guilty of theft, was being appealed as the punishment was felt to not be severe enough.