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              [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
              [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.

              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 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
              [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 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)
              [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 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.

              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
              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-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-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
              [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