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              MT NAM LCM-185-02 · Item · 30/07/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Curia Capitanalis
              Contra Joannem Mariam Falson
              MT NAM LCM-187-46 · Item · 22/09/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              MT NAM LCM-141-40 · Item · 20/09/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-143-10 · Item · 11/05/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Johannes 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-141-26 · Item · 14/07/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              Contra Joe Baptistam gatt
              MT NAM LCM-186-18 · Item · 01/08/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Francesco 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 Castellania
              [Contra Joem Bapttam Ariolo]
              MT NAM LCM-185-26 · Item · 14/10/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Johannes 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-186-03 · Item · 12/10/1663
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Giovanni 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 Gubernatorialis
              Contra Joem Mariam Mamo
              MT NAM LCM-186-07 · Item · 24/02/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Giovanni 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 Castellania
              [Contra Johannem Demines]
              MT NAM LCM-186-20 · Item · 21/09/1644
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The 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 Castellania
              [Contra Johannem Gatan]
              MT NAM LCM-011-40 · Item · 20/10/1580
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Certain 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-140-21 · Item · 28/08/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Johannes Paulus Gilibert is accused of seriously wounding his own wife, Ursulica. Doctor's report included. Witnesses interrogated. He was fined 2 uncia.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              [Contra Josephum Caruana]
              MT NAM LCM-146-01 · Item · 01/02/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Curia Capitanalis
              Contra Josephum Fafa Hebreum
              MT NAM LCM-143-07 · Item · 08/03/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The 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 Castellania
              Contra Josephum Roggier
              MT NAM LCM-143-12 · Item · 14/05/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Introductory 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-146-15 · Item · 13/03/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Josephus "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.

              Magna Curia Castellania