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              [De Pensibus]
              MT NAM LCM-147-105 · Item · 27/10/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Witness statements collected concerning the inspection of weights and measures that are used in botteghe in Valletta.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              [De Simonis Attard Pecunia]
              MT NAM LCM-147-28 · Item · 24/10/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Compromised due to loss of paper. It is reported that Cl. Giovann Maria Pauluccio agreed that he had found certain money arising from proceeds on a capital of investment among the belongings of his deceased father Simone Attard, from which the latter's pallbearers and funeral expenses were paid. Other heirs were paid. It is unclear what the legal case is about beyond this.

              Curia Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis Civitatis
              MT NAM LCM-142-20 · Item · 18/09/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Introductory folios missing. Concerning a dispute on payment on the sale of land. The land was called Ta Nicolao and it was situated in Casal Bisbut.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              [De Tal Chortin]
              MT NAM LCM-143-41 · Item · 11/12/1641
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Very partial interrogation of witnesses concerning the ownership of the land called Tal Chortin.

              [De Venefico Proditorio]
              MT NAM LCM-146-38 · Item · 16/10/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The body of a certain Magdalena Bosa was discovered and taken to the parish church of Porto Salvo in Valletta. It was presumed that she had been poisoned. The suspicion was confirmed when her mother Alexandra and 5-year old nephew Claudio Laman, who had eaten of the same meal also took ill. Eventually suspicion fell on her father Salvatore Bosa. The slaves Machamed Oghli and Ali Hali Oghli were accused of complicity. The motive was that Salvatore wanted to access Alexandra's inheritance. Salvatore Busa was found guilty, sentenced to be hanged and quartered. The slaves were sentenced to be hanged and their bodies left exposed to the elements.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-317-07 · Item · 16/01/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Jacobus Ligato testifies that while he was near the battlements called "Delle Due Balle" in the company of Josephus "di Marghin" Felici and Michaele "di Macellaro" Garzone, they were called in by Maria, daughter of Agostino Falzon to expel a certain Gio Maria (from Mqabba) from her house, who had stolen money fom her little son and was refusing to leave. While trying to drag him out, Gio Maria turned and bit Ligato on the nose, drawing blood.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-07 · Item · 16/01/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Jacobus Ligato testifies that while he was near the battlements called "Delle Due Balle" in the company of Josephus "di Marghin" Felici and Michaele "di Macellaro" Garzone, they were called in by Maria, daughter of Agostino Falzon to expel a certain Gio Maria (from Mqabba) from her house, who had stolen money fom her little son and was refusing to leave. While trying to drag him out, Gio Maria turned and bit Ligato on the nose, drawing blood.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-28 · Item · 30/05/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The infidel slave Sefer from Tunis, rower on the trireme Santo Luigi was accosted by a certain soldiers of the same galley, called Johannes Maria (no surname given), outside the Sacra Infermeria, who wounded him in the right leg, drawing blood. Two doctors' reports.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-317-49 · Item · 23/09/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Felice Mallia accuses Mattheo di Rotru of seriously wounding the slave Abdalla son of Ibrahim in the head. The slave was attacked in Senglea while carrying out duties for his master.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-38 · Item · 17/07/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Joseph Zimegh reports that he came across a certain Andrea, gardener of the garden below the bastions of Valletta towards Marsamoscetto, to whom he had promised to take some arsenic. The two spoke about this and when Zimegh sought to leave, Andrea attacked him with stones and drew blood. Doctor's report.

              Magna Curia Castellania – Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-317-20 · Item · 16/04/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Maria, wife of Laurentius Sammut, reports that in the early morning she had rushed out of her house at the cries of her 10 year old son, Tommaso, whom she found dizzy and with a lump over his eye. The boy reported that he had had a quarrel with the son of the same age of Marietta, wife of Baldassare. Marietta had then thrown stones at him, resulting in the wound in the head. Doctor's report.

              Magna Curia Castellania - Criminale
              MT NAM LCM-147-54 · Item · 28/02/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The scrittorio (desk) of the elemosinarius of the Grandmaster was stolen in the night together with the money assigned to him for the pursuit of his duties. By means of investigation it was discovered that Bernardino Debono and Micheale Agius had made a false key and used it to break into the elemosinarius' office, took the desk, made it out of the palace, hid the desk in an underground room belonging to Margerita Fiamenzo under the house of Lorenzo Tholossenti. They then enlisted the help of Angelo Portelli who helped take the desk elsewhere. Michael Agius was sentenced to hang, Bernardino Debono was sentenced to row for life, being spared the hanging for his young age, and Angelo Portelli was sentenced to row for three years.

              Magna Curia Castellania