Notice that the sentence given against the Sicilian Antonius Landolina, found guilty of theft, was being appealed as the punishment was felt to not be severe enough.
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Part of case document commencing with witness statements reporting that: a dispute arose concerning the purchase of fish by Antonio Gascon and Mario Buttigieg from the fisherman of Giovanni Domenico Carbon, and they came to blows.
Curia CapitanalisAntonino de Cara, rower on the Santa Ubaldesca, is accused of desertion. He is sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaWitness statements collected to ascertain whether or not the inn-keeper Antonius Bugeja was carrying illegal arms.
Antonio Bugeja approached a certain Angelo who owed him money for wine bought at his bottega, but Angelo refused to pay and attacked him. When he sought to defend himself, Angelo accused him of assault before the MCC. Witness statements collected but no sentence is included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAntonio Borg (benivoglia on the Santo Nicola) and Giovanni Maria Pace (benivoglia on the San Pietro) are accused of theft. They are accused of having removed part of the roofing of the bottega of Luca Zahra in Senglea, descended through it and stolen various goods including coings, iron and cloth material and other worked cloths. They then stowed away their stolen goods one in Corradino and the other in the area of San Giovanni ta' Huxa.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAntonio Saraniti and Mario Benaya are found guilty of sodomy and Vincentio Lopizzuto of complicity. They were discovered in a guardiola along the walls close to Jews' Gate. Saraniti and Benaya are sentenced to be extrangulated and their bodies burnt into ashes and so disposed of. Lopizzuto was to be beaten in public and then to row for life.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAntoninus Policascho, buonavoglia rower on the San Petrus, is accused of desertion for failing to show up for duty when the galley left the islands. Witness statements. Sentenced to three years' rowing on the galleys.
Magna Curia CastellaniaInterrogation of accused only. Antoninus de la Fenducci, a slave aboard the Santa Maria del Rosario was accused of desertion. He reports that he had been sent on land to gather supplies and that on his way back he had fainted and been taken in by a boy and some goodhearted people who gave him assistance. By the time he recovered, the ship had sailed.
Angelo Vella is accused of breaching the terms of his exile from Malta and returning to the island. Copy of the 02/01/1641 sentence included. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAngelus Vella is accused of breaching the terms of his exile and returning to the island of Malta, for which he is condemned to five years' rowing. Visible paper watermark.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCase document commences with witness depositions - introductory folios missing. It is insinuated by various witnesses that the person calling himself Andrea de Candia, a Greek, was actually a spy, and they report seeing him looking around various areas of Zabbar and the environs. Witness statements only.
Magna Curia CastellaniaPetronilla wife of Benedetto Lu from Burmula reports that while she was at the door of the house of her aunt Valentia, she saw Andrea, son of Catherina Cachia throw a stone at Antonetta Morroi. Other witness statements.
Aloysius Falsuni (knows as 'Firlis') is accused of breaking the terms of his exile and is sentenced to three years' rowing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAloysius Magro, Andrea Falson, Johannes Paulus Mizzi, Josephus Gusman, Michaele Camilleri, Clemens Haxac, Marius Xicluna, Petrus Bartolo and Dominicus Barbara are accused of treason. In May, cannon had been fired from Valletta, Mdina and Cittadella to call to arms after numerous galleys were reported sailing in the region. Fra Gabriele de Melos of the Ven. Langue of Portugal, as Captain of Zurrieq, summoned the militia (dejma) but issues arose and the people of Zurrieq rose against him, wounded him with thrown stones and chased him into a Church. They then made their way to Valletta to protest directly to the Grandmaster but their delegates did not wait for the Seneschall's response and barged into Valletta, armed and as far as the Grandmaster's palace.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAlexander Cutayar is accused of possession of an archibuschetto sive pistola (firearem) discovered in the course of his unrest for unrelated reasons at the tavern of Mario Laxixa. Witness statements. No sentence.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAlbertus sive Bertus Greg from Burmula is accused by Francisca Sacco of assaulting her son Anotnio while he was at his shop. He was fined six uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaIntroductory folios missing. Document commences with interrogation of witnesses. Mario Haxisa was seriously wounded in the head, with danger to her life. Alberto Calleja was identified as the aggressor and fines six uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCertain information missing due to loss of paper. The owner of housing with a little garden in Birkirkara demands that Agata, wife of Damiano Magri, who claims to have rights over the property, prove them in court or cease to make these claims in public.
Magna Curia CastellaniaProsecution of a certain Abela for blasphemy. Top part of the document torn away.
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