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The sailor Bartholomeo Roccella is accused of desertion for failing to report for duty aboard the corsairing vessel of the Cav. De Bonville. He disappeared from service when the ship was moored in Taranto. He received grace and absolution from prosecution for the grandmaster in return for enrolling as a soldier for the defence of Candia (Crete)

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.

Joannes de Marco and various others are accused of the murder of Cap. Giovanni Pasquale on his ship, which vessel was engaged in Corso in the Golfo di Sfachez off the coast of Barbary, and specifically when it was moored at Cagliari in the Kingdom of Sardinia. Joannes de Marco and Hieronimus Pollacco are hanged in public and then their bodies torn from into four parts and each part affixed in the usual places. Antonius Manes, Honoratus Melem, and Carolum Labergia were sentenced to row for life. Nicolaus Poloroditi, Antonius Moso, and Salvatore Thesorere sentenced to row for 5 years.

It is reproted in court that when Cap. Tommaso Zervo was gathering funds for his armament for the Corso, the butcher Giovanni Andrea Cammilleri loaned Zervo some money but in order to gain more than the usual maximum of 30% on this investment, he sold Zervo some meat at much higher price than the market rate as a condition for his investment of money with the usual rate of returns.

Giovanni Seychel is accused of not showing up for service on the corsairing venture of Cav. Gerento on the vessel captained by Cap. Gulielmo Buscau, despite having received payment. He is further accused of having resisted capture and wounding people in his escape. Sentenced to two years' rowing on the Order's galleys. Sentence appealed but result not recorded.

Marco sive Marchietto de Stefano is accused of hindering a military operation. He was a pilot on the Santa Ubaldesca and failed to follow orders to sail alongside the other five galleys towards St Demetrius Point after immediately leaving port. He is therefore accused of insubordination. A lot of information is available about the Order's fleet of six galleys at this point in time. Very detailed witness statements. He was sentenced to three years' exile from Malta.

32 sailors from the corsairing vessels of Cap. Thomas Zervo and Cap. Vincenzo Grech are accused of acting in such a way as to undermine the corsairing venture by refusing to sail from Malta and then of delaying and not sailing to usual sailing routes etc. The document is fragile due to crumbled paper.

Introductory folios missing. Document commences with examination of witnesses. Fra Franciscus de Robertis Scillitans had loaned Paulus Bagdano some money in return for his services abroad on Scillitans's vessel on Corso in the Levant, but Bagdano had failed to satisfy the terms of the agreement. In his interrogation Bagdano says he was a shoemaker who occasionally worked as a soldier. It was proven that Bagdano had been unwell and so unable to sail when the ship had left and he was liberated.

Paulo Pullicino is accused of refusing to show up for service on the corsairing vessel of the captain Cav. Fra Francesco Roberti Scillian despite having taken payment. The corsairing vessel is named as the San Giovanni Battista. He is therefore considered a fugitive and deserter. Sentenced to three years' rowing on the Order's galley.

Cap. Claudio Uzzino, Alberto de Leonardo, Orazio Chercopo, Marino Sardena, Simone Delelba, Giulio Testa, Gregorio de Battista Janvensen, Stefano Pullicino, Giovanni Condet, Francesco Antonio from Naples, Giacobo de Sangiavato, Leonardo Gambin and Stefano d'Anello are accused of sailing out of port on the brigantino San Giuseppe and deserted at various points of the journey. None were condemned.

Salvatore Hagius is accused of desertion from the corsairing crew of the sambechhino of Cap. Aloysius Gioubert during the period of quarantine and of going into the countryside into the company of non-infected persons. He had gone to Luqa, where he was tracked down and eventually arrested, although not before seeking refuge in the church and then breaking into an adjoining house of the family Camenzuli, who were then also arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the fugitive. The ship had captured a saica departed from Alexandria with riso, cafe, telaria, lino and other merchandise. Hagius was sentenced to ten years' rowing with chained feet.

Felice Petro, a buonavoglia rower on the Santi Giovanni e Paulo, and Joannes de Piazza, a buonavoglia rower on the San Nicola, are accused of desertion for failing to report for duty for a voyage made by their galleys together with a captured Turkish vessel to Sicily. They are sentenced to ten years' rowing.

Franciscus Pelini and Franciscus di Natale, engaged to serve on the Order's galley San Johannes, and Andrea Bonavia, engaged to serve on the corsairing vessel named Il Santissimo Crocifisso of Cap. Anastasio Seordini are accused of failing to show up for duty. Pelini had escaped in Maiorca, and Di Natale in Alicante. Bonavia claimes to have also been engaged on the Santa Elisabetta. Pelini was senteneced to three years' rowing with chained feet for three years, Di Natale was sentenced to two years' community service due to his young age, and Bonavia for three years' community service due to his old age.