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The slave Ali Mustafa Ogli is accused of strangling and murdering another slave Hussein Soliman Ogli in the slave prisons. He was sentenced to be hung three times, but never until dead and then to row on the galleys of the order for the rest of his life, with the wages of his labour being devolved to the Order to make up for the financial loss of its murdered slave.

Four slaves called Mahdem Ahmed de Anatolia (slave of Lazzaro dell'Arbori), Jusuf Ogli de Anatolia (of Cav. De la Romandeia), Jusuf Musogli (of Giovanni paolo Grimach) and Mihamed bin Mihamed from Tunis (of the heirs of the late Carolo Bonifacio) are accused of escaping while on their way to Gozo. They were interrogated under torture.

Francesco Corvinello, doctor, testifies that the previous night he had treated the Jewish slave Zaccharia of a wound above the stomach and elsewhere at the slave prisons in Vittoriosa. Zaccharia names Raffaele Ribera as the assailant but other details are unclear due to water damage. Visible watermark.

The Turkish slave Uzzejn Mahmed Ogli testifies that he found some very well made clothing of fine material close to the kithcens of the infirm slaves in the vicinity of his cell at the slaves' prison and that a slave called Romeda, a Moor, who served on the San Martino, told him that a certain slave Mahmet Ragas, who also served on the San Martino, had sold these in prison. It was alleged that he had stolen them.

Johannes Domenicus Pace from Lia reports that when he was at the tavern of Josephus 'tal Barun' in Lia towards sunset he was approached by slaves of the Falconiere posted at San Anton palace, who wanted to use Pace's land, known as Del Monastero in the area known as Migiar il Genieni to build a boat on which to escape with other Turks. When Pace refused, the same slave threatened him to keep his silence.

Rosa Maria, a servant in the service of the knight La Valletta, Governor of the Island of Gozo. He gave her a chest of clothing to be washed and money to cover the cost, but the key to it was taken when she left at home and left. She had it opened with the assistance of a locksmith in the presence of the knight, but they discovered that some things were missing. They accused Vincenza, a neophite slave of the same knight, who confessed to taking the key, the missing doppia di biancho and two genovine. The doppia was returned by the Parish Priest of Porto Salvo, to whom it was given by Vincenza in confession.

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.