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              [De Debitis]
              MT NAM LCM-143-46 · Item · 17/10/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Names unkown since the top part of the document is missing throughout but concerns prosecution for unpaid debts.

              [De Debitis]
              MT NAM LCM-147-138 · Item
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Lists of names and surnames in groups organised by day together with total sums owed for money, grain and chicken.

              [De Deletis Locis Domorum]
              MT NAM LCM-010-13 · Item · 02/08/1578
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Case not fully clear since the document is missing the upper part throughout. Concerning a dispute over property conceded in emphyteusis. Reference to 26/01/1557 contract and destruction of homes outside the city walls in preparation for the Great Siege.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              [De Desertione]
              MT NAM LCM-147-164 · Item · 31/08/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Unclear due to considerable loss of paper. Seems to concern collection of witness statements about the desertion of a member of the crew of one of the Order's galleys.

              MT NAM LCM-317-54 · Item · 19/10/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              it is reported that the sailor Carlus parnis escaped from service on the galley San Johannes while in Cartagena three years previously. He claimed that it had happened because he had been sent inland to buy provisions but when he returned, the ship had lready set sail. In the meantime, he had taken up employment on other ships as available. He finally joined up with the crew of San Johannes again when he came across the ship in Leghorn. He was sentenced to three years' rowing with chained feet on the triremes/galleys of the Order.

              Magna Curia Castellania - Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-25 · Item · 07/05/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Franciscus Pelini and Franciscus di Natale, engaged to serve on the Order's galley San Johannes, and Andrea Bonavia, engaged to serve on the corsairing vessel named Il Santissimo Crocifisso of Cap. Anastasio Seordini are accused of failing to show up for duty. Pelini had escaped in Maiorca, and Di Natale in Alicante. Bonavia claimes to have also been engaged on the Santa Elisabetta. Pelini was senteneced to three years' rowing with chained feet for three years, Di Natale was sentenced to two years' community service due to his young age, and Bonavia for three years' community service due to his old age.

              Magna Curia Castellania - Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-16 · Item · 11/02/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Laurentius Farrugia is accused of deserting from service on board the San Johannes in July 1710. He got seperated from the crew and ship in Genoa. He was sentenced to three years' rowing with chained feet. Commuted to regular service at half pay.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-42 · Item · 19/08/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Michaele Caroana failed to report for service on the ship San Giacomo and remained in Malta. Michaele claimed that the desertion was involuntarily since he was hungover from drinking wine and overslept, and he had already loaded his possessions on the ship and asks that he is not punished so he can marry the dowry-less Antonia Hebejer, who would otherwise be destitute. Caroana was sentenced to three years' rowing with chained feet. Giorgio Mercieca was likewise accused of desertion and sentenced to two years' rowing with chained feet.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              [De Edictis Lascaris]
              MT NAM LCM-140-42 · Item
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Excerpt concerning edicts of Lascaris concerning the replacement of judges due to conflicts of interest, followed by an excerpt of an unidentified origin concerning Maltese history.

              Non-Forensic
              [De Emptione Frumentorum]
              MT NAM LCM-011-02 · Item · 30/03/1579
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Top part of the document torn away. Concerning a dispute related to the purchase of grain involving the assistants of the bombardiers of the Order.

              Curia Capitanalis
              [De Emptione Frumentorum]
              MT NAM LCM-012-21 · Item · 15/08/1583
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Continuation of a previous case concerning payment for the import of grain. The importer was the merchant Johannes Franciscus Casella. See also LCM Box 11 No. 46 etc. Contains contracts.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-317-18 · Item · 23/02/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-317-29 · Item · 30/05/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Franciscus Dimech and Alberto Zamit, buthcers from Valletta, accuse the known thief and recidivist Johannes Paulus Conti of having stolen some animals which they had left to graze in an enclosure belonging to Zamit in the vicinity of the church of Nostra Signora della' Pieta.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-145-49 · Item · 22/11/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Petrus Pisano is accused of the murder of the Muslim slave Mahamed 'il Gizhiri', property of the Order, and the falconry of the Grandmaster specifically. The accused then went about the villages of the island armed to the teeth with pistols and other firearms before seeking sanctuary. Many witness statements collected. he was found guilty and sentenced to hang.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-012-06 · Item · 24/02/1581
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Witness statements are collected by the Curia Capitanalis concerning the alleged of homicide of the 8 year old Nicola Bonello from Żebbuġ by Dionisio Buttigieg. Witnesses reported seeing Buttigieg throw the boy under water in a reservoir (ġiebja) in Wied Qirda. Even so, the parents of the boy dropped all accusations against Buttigieg and the case was dropped.

              Curia Capitanalis
              [De Inventario]
              MT NAM LCM-187-56 · Item · 31/10/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Confirmation that Sperantia Crispo had made an inventory of the inheritance of her late husband Johannes Andrea Crispo.

              [De Muro Communi]
              MT NAM LCM-146-29 · Item · 27/08/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Concerning a dispute on common walls between the land Ta Cappara owned by [] Ross and the other land owned by [] Dimegh. Includes sworn testimonies by Geronimo Attard as appointed expert. Top section of document missing throughout.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              [De Muro Jacobi Inguanes]
              MT NAM LCM-144-30 · Item
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Jacobus Inguanes demands that Dominica Maringho is made to pay for half the costs of the common wall that they share.

              Officium Commissariorum Domorum (ODM)