Instituition of Bartholomeus Abela and Alfonso De Caro as tutors in tutela of the underage George, Crispino, Johannes and Vincentia following the death of Pasquale de Caro. The document contains also a short list of the properties in the inheritance, including immovable property, both residential and commercial (botteghe di vino), as well as shares in the ownership of a ship. Named properties: Il Gadir.
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Antonio 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 CastellaniaAntonio 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 CastellaniaIntroductory folios missing. Witness statements: Bartolomeo della Torre is accused of stealing items of clothinng and bedding from the house of Johannes Baptista and Vincentius Salvatore, and of Bartolomeo lo Diaco in Valletta.
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 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 CastellaniaAloysius (sive Ludovicus) Pol from France accuses Didaco Perviati of assaulting and wounding him.
Magna Curia CastellaniaDamiano 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 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.
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.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFlaminio 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 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 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 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 Maria Portelli is accused of assaulting Giovanni Domenico Ramozzetta in Valletta begind the Church of St John the Baptist. Fined three uncia.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni 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 CastellaniaCertain information missing due to the top of the document missing. Johannes Gatan owed 20 scudi to an unidentifiable person and for this reason her housing building in Valletta was conpublic prosecutorated for resale at auction.
Magna Curia CastellaniaJosephus "Tirda" Seychel is accused of theft and Josephus Xiberras, owner of a jewelry shop in Valletta, of purchasing stolen goods. The theft concerned a jewel with diamonds. Seychel was also tortured for information. They were, however, acquitted.
Magna Curia CastellaniaLudovico de Vignon, servant of Fra Gismondi reports that while he was on his way back from the Auberge of Italy he passed by the tavern of Giuseppe Xicluna who assaulted him.
Interrogation of Giulio Vatoblin (French) concerning accusations made against him by Aloisio David. He had thrown him into the sea. The case also involved the use of a garden planted by Aloisio with fig trees in Victoriosa, ownership of which is being disputeto which Vitublin, being a neighbour is claimed to have done damage. Various witness statments included. Copy of the 20/02/1570 contract of marriage between Marietta Fallon and the aramotarius Johannes Piu, referencing houses in Valletta. Also an 07/01/1578 contract by which the married couple sold housing in Vittoriosa to Vitublin.
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