Document commences midway with examination of witnesses. Concerning the rape of Maria Tonna. Includes expert submission by midwives who examined her at the Magisterial Palace in Notabile. The accused is Giovanni Maria Azzoppardi. Several witnesses were examined and re-examined. The court found him guilty of stuprum sine vi (ie. not against her will). He is ordered to marry her and to provide her with a dowry of 20 uncia. The case was appealed. This is confirmed on appeal.
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Francesco Bruno was at the tavern of Giovanni Maria Falzon in Vittoriosa together with Antonio Liperrino from Messina and they realised that when they paid they were given change by the same Falzon in uncertified coins.
Giovanni Maria Portelli is accused of assaulting Giovanni Domenico Ramozzetta in Valletta begind the Church of St John the Baptist. Fined three uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJohannes Maria Portelli, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Capitanea, is accused of desertion after failing to report for duty. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFrancesco Calleja reports that he had been informed that Battestino Gatt intended to intimidate witnesses that he was to summon to court and got a motion of injunction prohibiting Gatt from approaching the witnesses. Gatt then came and found Calleja at the house of his lawyer Don Domenico Debono and assaulted him. Witnesses examined. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJohannes Baptistam Ariolo, a buonavoglia rower on the San Giovanni di Paula, is accused of stealing a rug (tapeto) from the ship's captain. He was sentenced to ten years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Maria Aquilina is accused of murdering Giacobo Schembri at the request of Schembri's wife Innocenza. He was first arraigned before the Curia Gubernatorialis of Gozo, and then transferred to the Magna Curia Castellania to undergo interrogation under torture (described). They had followed Giacobo to the coastline of Marsalforn and precisely to the area of Ghar Cuacla, where he was collecting patelli, and there Giovanni Maria struck him with a stone and then threw the corpse into the sea. They were both found guilty: Aquilina was sentenced to hang and Schembri to exile from Malta and Gozo for life.
Curia GubernatorialisGiovanni Maria Mamo is accused of bearing illegal weapons. He is also accused of vexing Gregorio Caruana while he was transporting wine to the warehouses of Valletta by standing in his way and hindering his passage. He was exiled for one year from Malta, to be extended by five years if he breached the conditions of his exile.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe spouses Marius and Catarina Darmanin, as well as Domenicus, Franciscus and Angelus Darmanin accuse Johannes Demines, a soldier on the galley San Martino of murdering their brother Josephus Darmanin. Loose folio.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCertain information missing due to the top of the document missing. Johannes Gatan owed 20 scudi to an unidentifiable person and for this reason her housing building in Valletta was conpublic prosecutorated for resale at auction.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJohannes Paulus Gilibert is accused of seriously wounding his own wife, Ursulica. Doctor's report included. Witnesses interrogated. He was fined 2 uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaWitness statement of Gratio Ciantar, Algozin of the Slave Prison of Vittoriosa, reports that he saw the slave Joseph Trombetta, who works on the Galera Capitanale, litigating with Joseph Cevando over a wooden box.
Court order for the confiscation of money belonging to Giuseppe Camilleri.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephus 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.
Curia CapitanalisGiuseppe de Matthei, Giuseppe Salerno and Angelo Magro, rowers, are accused of desertion from their service on the galleys of the Order. Sentenced to three years' rowing on the galleys of the Order.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe Jew Josephus Fafa is accused of using fake pieces of bronze tari to purchase goods on various occasions. He was cleared of all charges and liberated.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephus Gambarella and Josephus Laburretta, buonavoglia rowers, are accused of desertion for failing to return to their galley when it was abroad. They were sentenced to one years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaIntroductory folios missing. Document commences with examination of witnesseses. Josephus Roggiero, from Naples and employed on the galera Santa Ubaldesca is accused of assaulting and wounding another crew members in Palermo, where he was then arrested. He was sentenced to three years' service as a marine on the galleys without pay.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephus "Tirda" Seychel is accused of theft and Josephus Xiberras, owner of a jewelry shop in Valletta, of purchasing stolen goods. The theft concerned a jewel with diamonds. Seychel was also tortured for information. They were, however, acquitted.
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