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              [Contra Josephum Caruana]
              MT NAM LCM-146-01 · Item · 01/02/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Josephus Caruana from Casal Luqa is accused of assaulting and wounding Augustinus Xicluna with a knife as well as theft. The accused entered the vineyard of Bartolomeo Mallia in the area of Ta Luca Effleni to steal, and then also broke into the house of Domenico Briffa in Luqa to steal grain that was stored there, as well as some wood. He also broke into a building in the area Ta Filep in the same village belonging to Ludovico Imbrogl, from which he stole paglia. He also stole mischiato from Bernardino Briffa. He was sentenced to three years' rowing. Sentence confirmed on appeal.

              Curia Capitanalis
              [Contra Joem Bapttam Ariolo]
              MT NAM LCM-185-26 · Item · 14/10/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Johannes 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 Castellania
              Contra Iles Mustafa Ogli
              MT NAM LCM-143-02 · Item · 11/12/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The 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 Castellania
              Contra Franciscum Lia
              MT NAM LCM-141-29 · Item · 11/08/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Francesco 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 Castellania
              Contra Ferrantem Matasino
              MT NAM LCM-146-05 · Item · 14/01/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Ferrante 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-142-06 · Item · 19/04/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Giulio Ros, and Martino Mancarella are accused of buying meat-stuffs from Frabrizio Rochello despite knowing that he was a servant of Andrea Falzon and had no cows of his own and so being in a position to assume theft. Fabrizio was sentenced to 50 lashes in public for the theft, but Ros and Mancarella were cleared of any wrongdoing.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              Contra Dominicum Bonanno
              MT NAM LCM-142-15 · Item · 18/08/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Introductory 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 Castellania
              [Contra Domenico Bonnici]
              MT NAM LCM-142-18 · Item · 13/09/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Domenico 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 Castellania
              Contra Cintium Farrugia
              MT NAM LCM-185-12 · Item · 19/02/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Cintius 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-146-16 · Item · 17/03/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The 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 Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-146-39 · Item · 22/10/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Night-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 Castellania
              [Contra Antonium Landolina]
              MT NAM LCM-185-13 · Item · 21/02/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-141-15 · Item · 08/03/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Antonio 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 Castellania