The barber Franciscus Azzopardi testifies that two years ago he had travelled to Zebbug with Salvo Calabro and others with a pack mule carrying grain. The grain was for a certain Mattheus who refused to purchase all of it. Unclear what was being asked. Top part of the document torn away.
Curia CapitanalisLegal Documents
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Giovanni Paolo Bonavia as procurator of Fra Matteo Perier reports the theft of wood, stone and other material of construction from the garden of Perier in Valletta.
Curia Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis CivitatisCompromised due to staining and loss of paper. Fra Johannes Baptista Compagnoni of the Langue of Italy cedes to Fra Antonius Scalamonte, Prior of the Baiuliatus of The Holy Trinity of Venusii, all his rights over 130 scudi owed by Johannes Scalamonte, nephew of the same Antonius.
Magna Curia CastellaniaBill of lading certifying that Fra Johannes Carlo, Baron of Bieschin, had loaded black cloth on the schifaccio Il Santissimo Crocifisso captained by Giuseppe Mucciche in the port of Malta.
Consolato del MareFra Commissarius Johannes Antonius Vatable, Chaplain of the Order for the Langue of France, and procurator of the Veneranda Assemblea of Chaplains, confirms that he has received due payment of 1,000 from cens bullalis from Thomas Pulis, from Senglea. Acts of Notary Thomas Masani de Candia.
Concerning debts owed by Fra Commendatore Don Martinus de Sessel.
Officium Causarum DelegatorumTop part of the document missing throughout, compromising understanding. Fra Antonius Consalvo de Torres confirms that he had travelled to Spain on San Paulus and sailed away from Spain on the San Jacobus, on which there was a gold cross and other things which he left in the care of Simon Miranda. Torres was then captured as a slave and Miranda had applied the value of the goods towards investments etc without Torres' permission and he was suing accordingly.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFra Antonio Scalamonti, Bali di Venosa, was owed c.200 scudi by Luigi Pol, scrivano of the Galera Padrona, and asks to initiate legal proceeedings against him for payment.
Officium Causarum DelegatorumNaulum (lease of ship) by Filippo D'Amato of the vessel of Cap. Jacobi Sinardi. Includes bill of lading confirming that grain was loaded in Palermo.
Bill of lading certifying that Cap. Filippo Cachia had loaded cottone filato, fostaino, sponzi, lana, ramo, anasi, mingivin, ramo, perticuni, tela, campeccio, filo di ferro on the brigantine Il Santissimo Crocifisso e San Benigno in the port of Malta, destined for Palermo.
Consolato del MareFilippo Bologna who had been sentenced to be exiled from Malta for undisclosed crimes requests to be kept in the prisons of the Court until the galley of Cav. De Crenville leaves on Corso.
Magna Curia CastellaniaConfirmation that in the acts of Not. Francesco Zammit of 9 September 1640 lawyer Federico Muxi resold the 4 scudi in annual income formerly sold to him by the deceased Benedetto Mamo to his heir Silvestro Mamo.
Dionisio Fenech and his sons Domenico, Allessandro, Carolo and Giuseppe accuse Eugenio Madiona of having illicit carnal relations with their sister Catherina. See document 2 in this same box.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCase unclear due to loss of paper. Commences with testimonial submission of Eugenius Carlat from Burmula who testifies that he was a sailor and captain of a tartana and he had brought a certain Mananni to Malta from Marseilles, having charged him the usual passage fees. The ship went by way of Alicante and Sicily.
Magna Curia CastellaniaBaldassare Ramella as legatarius of the deceased Lucretia Ramella, his wife (see will in acts of Not. Natale Parminiani 19/07/1640) prosecutes the cleric Johannes Paulo Muscat as gabellotto and possessor of the enclosure of land called Scibetta for the payment of 28 uncia and 20 tari (see Not. Toma Cauchi 20/05/1649 and Not. Juliano Felice 10/12/1640). Notary of the Ecclesiastical Court is [] Peralta.
Curia Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis CivitatisElisabetta Wuzzino wishes to summon witnesses to prove that she and her late brother and ship-captain Giovanni were both born from the legitimate union between the spouses Manrodi and Catherina Wuzzino, that her brother had died intestate by cannonshot while serving as piloto on the Papal Fleet at the fourth battle of the Dardanelles (1657) in the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War and that she had automatically inherited his estate as universal heir, and that the list of personal belongings (including jewellery, utensils etc) had indeed been his and now therefore rightfully hers.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Maria Camenzuli had named his wife Antonia, and his children Ignazio, Flaminia and two other underage children as his universal heirs in a previous will. He had appointed Antonia as the tutor of the three girls. He now removes the requirement of tutelage. The date of the will is not given. Made before notary Salvatore Ciantar.
Fra Don Iacinto Perez as cessionarius of Don Salvo Cumbo prosecutes the cleric Simone Apap for the payment of 50 uncia as promised in the contract of 24/08/1638 drawn up by notsary Luca Mamo. Folios 74-75 skipped due to movement of document (incorrect dating).
Curia Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis CivitatisDomenicus Paulicci as legitimate administrator of his wife Theodora, appeals from a sentence of the MCC pronounced against him and in favour of Augustinus Fiteni. The case seems to have concerned a sale of annual rent by Fiteni to Ignatius Hagius in 1653, and a similar sale to Michaele Purtaluni of annual rent derived from a grarden called Tal Vijet holliek in Birkirkara in 1658, and similarly to Baron Sylvester Fiteni of rent derived from land called Ta Sinen in Ta Gued Hollecha in 1655. There is a also a list of properties belonging to Fiteni: a house with two botteghi di Valsense, a garden and land called I'Immueseb ta Beb Ilghizira, land called Yccinus ta Gued Hollecha, land called Ta Sinen in Ta Ued Hollecha, land called Ta Don Matteolo and Ta Baldachino, lands in Zebbug in the area of St Roque, the land Tal Macra and Ginen Cubbaita. As well as a list of other financial assets. The actual concern of the original case is not explained.
Suprema Curia AppellationisDominicus Portelli reports the contumacia of Mattheolo Cuschieri and requests that the case between them proceeds. Loose folio.
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