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Giuseppe Zarb is accused of assaulting the priest Francesco Mura with a club while the same Francesco was walking home from the church of Sarria to Valletta in the company of his relative Maria. He also tried to stab the priest but was resisted. Inventories of the items held in Zarb's warehouse are provided, which were to be confiscated except for the share claimed by his innocent brother Giovanni Pietro and others. Sentence unclear.

Giovanni Paulo Galia from Paola reports that when he was with about 12 goats of his outside Floriana above Calcara when he came across a certain Gerolimo Lia who claimed to have lost three sheep. That evening he noticed that he was missing a goat and was informed by a boy called Giuseppe that the same Gerolimo had been among them. He was imprisoned but released on condition that he is never outside the city walls from one hour before sundown onwards, and that he may not purchase or resell anything in the countryside, on pain of 45 years' rowing.

The underage slave Mamed Mustafa Ogli, another Turkish slave called Dilamet, and the neophyte Nicola Cassia are all accused of grand theft. The underage Mamed is accused of stealing many jewels and money from the house of his master the doctor Jacobo Cassia, and then of trying to escape with others from the country. They were interrogated under torture. The minor Mamed was sentenced to serve the Order for 10 years, Nicola Cassia was sentenced to row for life, and Dilamet was sentenced to row for three years. Nicolas' sentence was reduced to 5 years on appeal.

Giacomo Cassar is accused of stealing 21 lambs and sheep which Santoro Vella from Zebbug had left to pasture in the fields of San Antonio under Notabile. He took them to some place beneath the battlements of Floriana, where he and Giuseppe Pantalaris killed some of the lambs and took them to Valletta to be sold. Giacomo Cassar was sentenced to row for ten years and Giuseppe for four.