Giovanni Domenico Gatt, Treasurer of the Universitas of Notabile, is instructed to pay Mattheolo Greg, capo mastro in Selmun Tower 8 scudi, 6 tari for himself and three soldiers for services rendered.

Anglica wife of Andrea Formosa accuses Salvum Bugeia of rape against her daughter in a field against her will on Christmas eve. Several witnesses. He was acquitted. The acquittal was confirmed on appeal.

Initiation of summoning of witnesses on behalf of Mattheolo Hagius.

Cintius Farrugia is accused of theft and specifically that he (and potentially any accomplices he might have had) had stolen various items of clothing and cloth (described) from the house of Pascuila Greg in Valletta. Interrogation of witnesses. Sentence not included.

Captain Ludovico Bacchier and his crew members Francesco Spiteri, Hyeronimo Spiteri, Giuseppe Zahra, Mattheolo Grima, Giovanni Paulo Cassar, Didaco Camilleri, Giulio Pisani, Thomas de Sosa, Ludovico de Giuliano, Giovanni Maria Rizzo, Sebastiano Cachia, Michele Borg, Antonacio Circhop, Domenico Baldacchino, Valerio Spiteri, and Jacobo Bonnici are accused of abusing of their license to fly the flag of the Order and of sailing on corso, looting enemy vessels, despite not having licence to engage in privaterring. They had been engaged by the Order to run a separate and different mission to Sicily.

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.

The spouses Salvo and Gratia Agius are accused of stealing grain from the mill of Francesco Felice in Valletta.

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.

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The English bombardier (bombardiero) Richiardo Schott had been given leave to serve on the vessel of Cap. Martinus Vella as bombardier but he had not received all the pay due to him for his role. Witness statements from other members of the crew collected.

Raffaele Delia prosecutes Leonardo Cassia for the repayment of loaned money and the return of grain or its equivalent given by Delia to Cassia from a shipment arrived from Licata.

Gusmano Bonnici and his son Thommaso explain how Gusmano had bought certain parcels of land and given them to his son as part of a marriage contract. The lands were burdened with dues (cens bullalis) towards Lazzaro Bonnici, and they had been imprisoned by the cessionarius Franciscus Surdo even though they had paid more in dues than they had garnered in income from the land. They ask to be released. Contractual history going back as 1549 given (see contract of 14/02/1549 and many other more recent ones establishing the cens bullalis and the various transfers of the same land.) The referenced contracts refer to several properties throughout the islands.

Clara Farrugia, represented by her husband Josephus, prosecutes Johannes Burlo who had been left universal heir of the deceased Canon Rev. Petrus Burlo, and who had cheated her out of some money promised to her as dowry, and so owed. Copies of the will, in which various persons appear as witnesses due to the infirmity of the will-maker is enclosed in copy.

Franciscus de Lauda prosecutes for the payment of due rent (from Cens Bullalis) owed by Josephus Cammenzuli. Contract from 11 January 1555 included by which Augustino Cumbo had conceeded animals in rent to Fra Petrus de Olivares of the langue of Castille. Other contracts establishing the claim (the land cannot be identified) are included.

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.

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

Johannes Domenicus Xiberras, medical doctor reports that he had bought certain lands from Julius Portelli (see Not. Ferdinandux Camenzuli - undated) but a certain Mettheolus Cuschieri was now claiming that that the capital of 200 scudi associated with cens bullalis with these lands were now his. The court found merit in Cuschieri's claim and ordered 111.3 scudi to be paid to him. See also doc. 3 in this same box.

Severely damaged docment, lower 40% missing. Rubrica for the interrogation of witnesses to confirm or otherwise that Pauluccius Vassallo had sold certain items to his brother Marinus Vassallo as per a contract of sale by Not. Johannes Paulus Fenech (06/03/1639), including land called Ta Zebbeh, and another called Ta Halquissa in the area Ta Halquissa.

Baptista Rizzo reports that he had received one black-haired donkey (somerium pili negri) by means of exchange (Not. Petrus Buttigieg - undated). It had been confiscated unjustly at the instigation of Mattheolo Caruana and he demands its return.

Leonardus de Maria had claims against the inactive inheritance of Georgius Audemi and against the absent Joannes Circiaco and demands that either the legal administrators and procurators of either make themselves known to the Courts, or that the Courts appoint due curatores ad litem to represent them.