Anna Franco reports that officers of the court had come to her house to confiscate property in relation to debts she owed, but the officers had also confiscated a manta which she had borrowed from someone else, and she asks that this item is returned.
Magna Curia CastellaniaLegal Documents
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Ludovico de Vignon, servant of Fra Gismondi reports that while he was on his way back from the Auberge of Italy he passed by the tavern of Giuseppe Xicluna who assaulted him.
Giuliano Grech and Giuliano from Zurrieq are accused of desertion from service aboard the San Pietro. They were sentenced to three years' forced rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaValerio Burlo from Burmula accuses Giulio Cassia known as Caccio from Burmula of assault. Cassia had refused to pay for certain items. Cassia was fined 6 uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephum d'Orlando, Julius Galia, buonavoglia rowers on the Santa Maria, and Francesco Bonnici, buonavoglia rower on the Santo Lorenzo, are accused of desertion for failing to report for duty. They were sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaInterrogation of Giulio Vatoblin (French) concerning accusations made against him by Aloisio David. He had thrown him into the sea. The case also involved the use of a garden planted by Aloisio with fig trees in Victoriosa, ownership of which is being disputeto which Vitublin, being a neighbour is claimed to have done damage. Various witness statments included. Copy of the 20/02/1570 contract of marriage between Marietta Fallon and the aramotarius Johannes Piu, referencing houses in Valletta. Also an 07/01/1578 contract by which the married couple sold housing in Vittoriosa to Vitublin.
Magna Curia CastellaniaLorenzo 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCommences with witness statements. Lorenzo Grima is accused of stealing 190 scudi and other money in foreign currency from his house-mate Paulina Deguara. He is sentenced to row on the galleys for life.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCase commences with the interrogation of Lorenzo Vella who claims that he had gone with Giovanni Battista Zammit to see the vessel recently captured in corso by Cav. de Creinulle, where they came across a man who claimed to be the guardian of the vessel. This guardian invited them on board and gave them some roasted chickpeas but some time later, some guards came about and arrested them for trespassing and stealing chickpeas from the vessel's hold. The so-called "guardiano" had escaped. Other statements collected. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaLeonardo de Martino, rower on the San Pietro is accused of impersonating another rower to take his pay. Sentenced to five years' rowing on the Order's galleys.
Magna Curia CastellaniaLucianus Collara and Johannes d'Antonius, buonavoglia rowers are accused of desertion for not reporting for duty on the San Josephus and were sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaBertum Vella had been exiled from Valletta in relation to previous crimes but he had broken the terms of his exile and was therefore fined 10 uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephus Callus is accused of grievously wounding Petrus Mancarellas. Witness statements collected but he was acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAmbrosius Tonna accuses Martinus Mancarella of assaulting him at the tavern of the same Mancarella in Valletta and for no reason. Witnesses interrogated. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaDomenico Borg, carpenter from Qormi, accuses Petro Michallef, carpenter, of punching him and then trying to assult him with an axe, after accusing him of maltreating his son. Witness statements collected but no sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaHieronimus Grech accuses Magdalena Pinto from Valletta of attacking him with a knife (pugnale). She was fined four uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaMarco 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaMariano Cassar, Battista Mamo, Georgio Grech and other accomplices are accused of gambling and playing forbidden games at the bottega of Matteo Galdes in Valletta. They were sentenced to one years' rowing commuted on appeal to a fine of six uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe case document commences with copies of bandi forbidding the export of food, governing its collection and prohibiting the production of biscotti without licence. A case against the Gozitan Notary Mario Pontremoli is transferred to the Magna Curia Castellania, since the judge of the Curia Gubernatorialis was his relative and so had to recuse himself. It is reported by witnesses that the Jurat Giovanni Maria Cumbo had approached Pontremoli as notary of the Universita, and asked him to report on the collection of owed money since some debtors who had paid might still have been incarcerated for the satisfied debts, in answer to which Pontremoli refused and the matter turned to violence, with blows exchanged between the parties. Notary Fabrizio Figeni of Siggiewi reports that Pontremoli had also received money from Giovanni Paulo Camilleri on behalf of the judge of the Curia Gubernatorialis as a deposit of some sort in relation to a case ongoing in Gozo. It is also reported that Pontremoli was selling grain from the public warehouse, claiming that he had the sanction of the jurats, which was not so. Pontremoli is arraigned on accusations of abuse of power and corruption. Includes a missive from the Grandmaster outlining the administration of the island of Gozo and its military operations. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCollection of witness statements testifying that Mariuzzo de Paschale tried to break into the house of Theresa Rizzo.