The spouses Marius and Catarina Darmanin, as well as Domenicus, Franciscus and Angelus Darmanin accuse Johannes Demines, a soldier on the galley San Martino of murdering their brother Josephus Darmanin. Loose folio.
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Giovanni Maria Mamo is accused of bearing illegal weapons. He is also accused of vexing Gregorio Caruana while he was transporting wine to the warehouses of Valletta by standing in his way and hindering his passage. He was exiled for one year from Malta, to be extended by five years if he breached the conditions of his exile.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Maria Aquilina is accused of murdering Giacobo Schembri at the request of Schembri's wife Innocenza. He was first arraigned before the Curia Gubernatorialis of Gozo, and then transferred to the Magna Curia Castellania to undergo interrogation under torture (described). They had followed Giacobo to the coastline of Marsalforn and precisely to the area of Ghar Cuacla, where he was collecting patelli, and there Giovanni Maria struck him with a stone and then threw the corpse into the sea. They were both found guilty: Aquilina was sentenced to hang and Schembri to exile from Malta and Gozo for life.
Curia GubernatorialisJohannes 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFrancesco Calleja reports that he had been informed that Battestino Gatt intended to intimidate witnesses that he was to summon to court and got a motion of injunction prohibiting Gatt from approaching the witnesses. Gatt then came and found Calleja at the house of his lawyer Don Domenico Debono and assaulted him. Witnesses examined. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Seychel is accused of not showing up for service on the corsairing venture of Cav. Gerento on the vessel captained by Cap. Gulielmo Buscau, despite having received payment. He is further accused of having resisted capture and wounding people in his escape. Sentenced to two years' rowing on the Order's galleys. Sentence appealed but result not recorded.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJohannes Maria Portelli, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Capitanea, is accused of desertion after failing to report for duty. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Maria Portelli is accused of assaulting Giovanni Domenico Ramozzetta in Valletta begind the Church of St John the Baptist. Fined three uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFrancesco Bruno was at the tavern of Giovanni Maria Falzon in Vittoriosa together with Antonio Liperrino from Messina and they realised that when they paid they were given change by the same Falzon in uncertified coins.
Document commences midway with examination of witnesses. Concerning the rape of Maria Tonna. Includes expert submission by midwives who examined her at the Magisterial Palace in Notabile. The accused is Giovanni Maria Azzoppardi. Several witnesses were examined and re-examined. The court found him guilty of stuprum sine vi (ie. not against her will). He is ordered to marry her and to provide her with a dowry of 20 uncia. The case was appealed. This is confirmed on appeal.
Curia CapitanalisGiovanni Carolo Cacutari was swimming in the marina of Burmula close to the Convent of St Theresa when he made threatening gestures with a sword at the guards of the gate of Senglea, and he then shot a pistol in their direction. He then resisted arrest. He was sentenced to row for life.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Azzopardi is accused of wounding another person and is fined 2 uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Burgella, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Capitanea is accused of desertion for failing to report for duty. He is sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaDon Nicolaus Barbara seeks to enforce a deadline on Joannella, widow of the late Domenico de Lorenzo, by when she is to declared whether or not she intends to accept the inheritance of the deceased with all related income and obligations.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJoannes de Marco and various others are accused of the murder of Cap. Giovanni Pasquale on his ship, which vessel was engaged in Corso in the Golfo di Sfachez off the coast of Barbary, and specifically when it was moored at Cagliari in the Kingdom of Sardinia. Joannes de Marco and Hieronimus Pollacco are hanged in public and then their bodies torn from into four parts and each part affixed in the usual places. Antonius Manes, Honoratus Melem, and Carolum Labergia were sentenced to row for life. Nicolaus Poloroditi, Antonius Moso, and Salvatore Thesorere sentenced to row for 5 years.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Paulo Ghing, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Magistrale, is accused of desertion for failing to report for service. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJoannes Paulus Dimech was accused of assualting Chrispinus Curmi but was acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaDomenicus Azzoppard (Azzopardi) accuses Johannes Ramozzetta of assaulting him in Valletta. Witness statements collected. He was fined two uncia and both prosecution and defence protested against the sentence. No information available concerning an appeal.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJacobus Terlano, buonavoglia rower on the Galera Capitanea, and Mario Bonnici, buonavoglia rower on the La Vittoria, are accused of deserion for failing to report for duty and are sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaConcerning the arrest of Giacomo Michallef at the request of Domenico Borg. He resisted arrest. The document does not include information on the cause of the arrest.
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