Bernardo Tabone, buonvaoglia on the San Ubaldesca, is accused of desertion from service and of seeking escape on the vessel captained by Cap. Aloysio Ruggio. Cap. Ruggio is fined 50 uncia. No sentence given for Tabone.
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Testimonies collected to confirm that Brayto Vella had been incarcerated by Officers of the Magna Curia Castellania.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJohannes La Speranza (Neapolitan), Petrus di Platamone (Neapolitan), Panaiottis de Santa Maura and Johannes Baptista Luri are accused of leaving service the galleys of the Order to enroll on the corsairing crew of the tartana of Cap. Bartholomeus sive Mattheus Gheidun before the period of proscription of six months was up. Testimonies collected. Accused interrogated about their conditions of work and leaving the navy. The accused were sentenced to a wine of 200 unciae each. Since Panaiottis de Santa Maura could not pay or find a pledge, he was sentenced to row on the galleys but this was commuted to regular service on the galleys as a soldier.
Magna Curia Castellania – CriminaleThe Bali Fra Antonius Scalamonti accuses the French Masseus Rosso and Cap. Josephus Arnaud, and Johannes Maria Cefai of false witness. They are accused of giving false witness both before the Notary Thomaso Maranoand again in court before Notary Paulus D'Arena. They claimed that 11 years before they had been on the vessel Sant'Antonius of Cap. Josephus Arnaud on the way to Venice were they loaded goods including several antenni belonging to Scalamonti, loaded aboard by Fra Petrus Diotallevi. They are accused of giving false witness concerning a shipwreck to cover for the fact that they had sold off some of the antennae to various persons. The accused were found innocent and acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCaptain 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaNight-captain Bernardo Hagius, Emanuele Petta, Giovanni Domenico Bonnici, Cosmo Gauci, Gridonio Degriolo and Andrea Moneglia are accused of grand theft. They abused of their poisition to trick a crew of Frenchmen into an ambush in Kalkara, by means of which they stole great quantitites of money from them. Another accomplice, Domenico Falzon, was sentenced to four years' rowing. Bernardo Agius and his colleague Leonardo Mifsud were found to have had no knowledge of the ambush and freed. Emanuele Petta was sentenced to row for three years No other sentences included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCarolo Adriano is accused of trying to break into the house of Silvia Bugeja, a prostitute, while bearing arms. Witness statements includes. No sentence included.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCarolus Gnarnieri, buonavoglia rower on the Santa Ubaldesca, was accused of desertion for not reporting to service for a journey to Syracuse.
Magna Curia CastellaniaMariuzza Gallo accuses Carolus Flu of various insults made by him towards her person, but later retracts the accusation.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe buonavoglia rower of the Galera Capitanea Chrispinus Grima is accused of stealing from the galley and its crew after the galley was damaged in a storm. He was acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCintius 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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaNicola Garrone, sergeant of the Galera Capitanale reports to Giovanni Galdiano as Captain General of the Order's Fleet that Cesare Galuppi from Lipari, a sailor aboard the same vessel had sought to desert by leaving the galera and going aboard a different corsairing vessel. He was sought and captured. Witness statements collected.
The Frenchman Cosmum Martinet, married in Malta and resident in Valletta, is accused of fraudulently claiming he had permission to leave the island and embarking onto a vessel bound to foreign lands from an unusual place. He was escaping the service of his employer the Baglio Duplesi. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAloysius (sive Ludovicus) Pol from France accuses Didaco Perviati of assaulting and wounding him.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe 11-year old Antilia Camilleri claims that Domenica David had thrown stones at her because she had thrown stones at Domenica's grandson. She chased Antilla and tried to throw her off the walls of Senglea. Other witness statements collected. Lower court sentence is not included but Domenica was presumably foudn guilty since she appealed. Appeal sentence not included.
Suprema Curia AppellationisDomenico Bonnici, who was employed as a custodian of the Slaves' Prison, is accused of abusing of his position to sell property and goods belonging to the Order for personal gain. The court orders a full inventory to be taken of all his belonging in his house in Zebbug.
Magna Curia CastellaniaVarious pieces of cloth (described) belonging to Dominicus Chiuci are confiscated to be sold at auction and satisfy debts owed to a person whose name cannot be read. Top section of document missing throughout.
Curia CapitanalisDamiano Attard from Dingli is accused of assaulting Filippo Attard from Rabat at the tavern of Domenico Camilleri in Valletta. He was fined two uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaIntroductory folios missing. Case commences with the interrogation of witnesses. It appears that Domenico Bonanno was being accused of financial fraud and of selling wood belonging to the Order. He was found guilty and sentenced to four years' rowing. Case continues in document 18.
Magna Curia CastellaniaCarolo Psayla and Domenico Farrugia are accused of assaulting Giovanni Maria Agius on the street of the Augustinian convent in Valletta. They are sentenced to six months' community service.
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