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Antonio Borg (benivoglia on the Santo Nicola) and Giovanni Maria Pace (benivoglia on the San Pietro) are accused of theft. They are accused of having removed part of the roofing of the bottega of Luca Zahra in Senglea, descended through it and stolen various goods including coings, iron and cloth material and other worked cloths. They then stowed away their stolen goods one in Corradino and the other in the area of San Giovanni ta' Huxa.

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.

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.

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.

Ferrante Matasino is accused of the following crimes: he abused of his friendship with Carlo Cassia to procure a key to his bottega and stole large quantities of mecco, tabacco, pepe, bugasino, sapone etc. He is also accused of other thefts. He is also accused of desertion for not presenting himself for service on a corsair vessel which he had contracted to join. He is sentenced to five years' rowing.

Francesco Lia and his accomplices are accused of breaking into the Church of Saint John the Baptist, taking off his shoes so as not to make noise, and stealing a silver chandelier from the Chapel of Our Lady of Philermos. He was sentenced to public flagellation and ten years' rowing on the Order's galleys.

The infidel slaves belonging to the Order named Iles Mustafa Ogli, Assan Babac Ogli, Assan Ali Ogli and Mustafa Sileyman Ogli are accused of grand theft. Iles Mustafa Ogli, slave at the kitchens of the Grandmaster's palace stole 2 silver plates during the festivities of Easter, handed them over to Badacogli and Mustafa Sileyman Ogli, who took them aboard the Order's Galley to Messina, where they were sold. Separately, Iles Mustafa Ogli stole another plate of silver and sold it to Assan Ali Ogli, slave of the knight Carolo Giannallo who recognised the plate as belonging to the Grandmaster's Palace. Iles was sentenced to hanging and the others to be beaten until they pass out.

Marius Buhagiar testifies that when he was passing by the house of the prostitute Giovanna La Fleur in Valletta he saw the slave Ahmed bin Mohammed, a slave of the Order from Algiers who served on the triremes leaving the house carrying large quantities of gold etc. Other statements compromised by loss of paper.

Josephus Caruana from Casal Luqa is accused of assaulting and wounding Augustinus Xicluna with a knife as well as theft. The accused entered the vineyard of Bartolomeo Mallia in the area of Ta Luca Effleni to steal, and then also broke into the house of Domenico Briffa in Luqa to steal grain that was stored there, as well as some wood. He also broke into a building in the area Ta Filep in the same village belonging to Ludovico Imbrogl, from which he stole paglia. He also stole mischiato from Bernardino Briffa. He was sentenced to three years' rowing. Sentence confirmed on appeal.

Lorenzo Buttigieg, who had been found guilty of thefts previously, had been sentenced to community service at the Conventual Church of St John the Baptist in Valletta. While serving here he dared to steal two silver candelabra from the chapel of Our Lady of Filermos. He was sentenced to public hanging.

Vincentius Madiona, from Valletta, an apothecary, reports that he needed to buy some birds of prey (uccelli di cacciai) and asked for them to a certain Michaele, pullalloro. On their way back they had a verbal altercation with a couple of men in the service of Rafaele Balsani and Madiona later found out that one of the men broke into Michaele's workspace and stole a couple of birds from him.