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Night-captain Bernardo Hagius, Emanuele Petta, Giovanni Domenico Bonnici, Cosmo Gauci, Gridonio Degriolo and Andrea Moneglia are accused of grand theft. They abused of their poisition to trick a crew of Frenchmen into an ambush in Kalkara, by means of which they stole great quantitites of money from them. Another accomplice, Domenico Falzon, was sentenced to four years' rowing. Bernardo Agius and his colleague Leonardo Mifsud were found to have had no knowledge of the ambush and freed. Emanuele Petta was sentenced to row for three years No other sentences included.

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.