Giacobo Leone is accused of desertion from service aboard the Order's Sant'Ubaldesca since he failed to report for duty as a buonavoglia rower. Sentenced to three years' rowing.
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Giacobo Calleja is accused of assaulting the slave from Tunes called Ramadan bin Assan, property of the Order while in the vicinity of the Church of the Jesuits in Valletta. He was fined 6 uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJacobo Bonavi is warned not to vex Giovanni Maria Farrugia on pain of a sentence of rowing for five years.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe infidel slaves belonging to the Order named Iles Mustafa Ogli, Assan Babac Ogli, Assan Ali Ogli and Mustafa Sileyman Ogli are accused of grand theft. Iles Mustafa Ogli, slave at the kitchens of the Grandmaster's palace stole 2 silver plates during the festivities of Easter, handed them over to Badacogli and Mustafa Sileyman Ogli, who took them aboard the Order's Galley to Messina, where they were sold. Separately, Iles Mustafa Ogli stole another plate of silver and sold it to Assan Ali Ogli, slave of the knight Carolo Giannallo who recognised the plate as belonging to the Grandmaster's Palace. Iles was sentenced to hanging and the others to be beaten until they pass out.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJoannella Desira from Senglea accuses Hieronymus Grima, tavern-keeper in Senglea, of assaulting her in her house while she was in the company of her sister Antona. She received the help of Fabrizio de Mani, Antonaccio de Paris, and Minichella de Rodo who took the accused off of her. He was absolved.
Magna Curia CastellaniaUnderstanding compromised due to top part of the document missing throughout. A certain Guglielmo Balmo, a Frenchmen married in Malta, departed for France for commercial reasons as a merchant, and it was not known whether he was alive or dead, leaving his wife to care for their three children. It seems that she is now either trying to access a poliza in his name, or defending her claim to it. From the various interrogations it was doscovered that he was alive and at the court of the Count de Grillge.
Officium Causarum DelegatorumGratius Bellina, buonavoglia rower, is accused of bearing arms against the law. Witness statements collected. He is sentenced to five-years rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGabriele Caruana is accused of evading capture after sentencing and using weapons to seek escape. Sentenced to five years' additional rowing in addition to his previous sentence.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFranisco Remmires, buonavoglia rower on the Santa Maria is accused of desertion and of resisting arrest. He is sentenced to ten years' rowing on the galleys.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFrancesco Lia and his accomplices are accused of breaking into the Church of Saint John the Baptist, taking off his shoes so as not to make noise, and stealing a silver chandelier from the Chapel of Our Lady of Philermos. He was sentenced to public flagellation and ten years' rowing on the Order's galleys.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFrancesco di Donna, Michele della Croce, Michele Peppetuni, and Antonino Bonacorso, buonavoglia rowers aboard the Vittoria are accused of desertion as they failed to report for service. They were sentenced to three years' rowing on the galleys of the Order.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe Neapolitan Francesco "Ciccu" Dattolo is accused of usury. He loaned money to Francesco de Federico and collected far more than he had loanded and in excess of what would be permissible. He was, however, acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFranciscus Bongiorno and Joannes Attard, buonvaglia rowers on the Santa Maria are accused of desertion for not reporting to work. They are condemned to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaWitness statements are collected concerning insults made to officers of the law by Francesco Barbara, a sailor and marine on the galleys of the Order, in Zurrieq. Barbars is also accused of trying to steal an officer's sword to assault him with it. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJulia, widow of Giovanni Maria Attard and wife of Orlando Pullicino, accuses her son Francesco Attard of insulting her to great scandal, and of making several serious threats against her person, as well as assulting her little daughter. He is sentenced to three years' rowing but this is severely mitigated on appeal.
Magna Curia CastellaniaDispute concerning outstanding payments for wine which the buyer (Francesco) claims to have paid. Other information missing due to loss in paper. No visible sentence.
Magna Curia CastellaniaInterrogation of Franciscus Torchjetto who is accused of theft of money from his crewmates in Sicily.
Flaminio Zammit is accused of the murder of Franciscus Damato, rower aboard the Santa Maria, in Vittoriosa. Witness statements collected. He was found guilty and sentenced to a life sentence of rowing aboard the Order's galleys without pay and with bound feet.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFerrante Matasino is accused of the following crimes: he abused of his friendship with Carlo Cassia to procure a key to his bottega and stole large quantities of mecco, tabacco, pepe, bugasino, sapone etc. He is also accused of other thefts. He is also accused of desertion for not presenting himself for service on a corsair vessel which he had contracted to join. He is sentenced to five years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaPasquale Farrugia and Federico Caruana are accused of illegal gambling and playing forbidden games at the tavern of Parisio Carassaschino in Valletta. They were fined 10 uncia each.
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