Expert evaluation of the value of housing properties in Valletta and Burmula

Stephanus Galdes and Frangiu sive Franciscus Chiantar are accused of breaking the public peace by fighting outside the Auberge de Provence in Valletta.

Bottom part of the document missing, considerable paper fragmentation. Stephanus Baldacchino is accused of assualt and wounding another person.

Petruzzo Rizzo was in his bottega in Valletta when he was approached by Josephus Lombardi who started insulting him. Lombardi even took some flour and threw it at him. Other witness statements collected. Court fees listed.

Sevasto de Sango owed Giulio Vacoblin 150 scudi, and 10 tari. For this reason, the latter's house in Valletta (called Citta Nova) which consisted of three rooms covered in bulate, a kitchen, yard and cistern, was put up for auction.

Doctor Petrus Scarpello, salaried doctor at the Infidel Prison of Valletta, confirms that he medicated the slave Giafer Memadogli of the galera San Giovanni de Paula for wounds suffered in the head.

Salvo Napolitano accuses the carpenter (fabrum lignarium) Antino di Milano and Bartholomeo Pernai, both Sicilians, of assaulting him in the public square of Valletta for not allowing Di Milano to introduce modifications to their housing. They were acquitted.

Fra Mariano Cassia as procurator of the Venerable Convent of Porto Salvo in Valletta seeks to recover money left in donation to the convent by Marco Mifsud on behalf of Catherina De Laurentio.

Carmina Assenza reports that he had seen Pasquale Grima and Maria Fabre running about in each other's company, even though she had recently almost killed him. Other testimonies collected. Maria was married but her husband had been absent from Malta for many years, and she lived as a widow. The two had had carnal relations, and as a result Grima was beaten and Fabre exiled to Senglea. This witnessed meeting of theirs occurred in contravention of the Court's orders.

Cap. Martinus Carignani reports that a certain Carlus, being a servant of Cav. De Chaumont, himself captain of the Santa Croce, had repeatedly caused offence to his duaghter who was living in Senglea. He had complained to the knight and so Carlus had assulted him close to the church of St Francis in Valletta.

Petrus D'Avignone, a tailor from Valletta, had gone with some men to a house in the posession of Domenicus Mansicalco, where they discovered a bowl full of human refuse which they believed was left as an insult by his previous tenants.

Laurentius Celestri from Senglea reports that that morning while in Valletta to buy fish, he was assulted by Clemenzio Zerafa, a sailor from the tartana of padrone Honoratus Amaira, on which Celestri himself had once sailed.

Josephus Parnis had been ordered at the instigation of Johannes Cutayar to vacate some rooms in Valletta but rejects that he has any obligation to do so before the title which Cutayar claims to have over the room is verified or otherwise.

Part of a witness statement by an unknown person and another statement by Johannes Maria Camilleri and Johannes Paulus Felici as court experts, concerning the transport on land by burdonari of frumento and orzo.

Giacobo Camilleri and Aloisio Colonica, procurators of the Ven. Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary in Valletta report that unknown persons had stolen a frame (quadretto) of silver from their altar in the Church of Our Lady of Porto Salvo as well as two gold bracelets from the painting, as well as other precious items. As well as the Ibrocatiglio Napolitano from the Tapestry which the friars had made for this chapel.

Similarly, the heirs of Isabella Buchaina, report that they found many items including furniture, jewels, contracts and other writings, jewels, money etc. to have been stolen as they were proceeding with the inventory.

Monitoria are issued concerning both cases.

Giovanni Paolo Bonavia as procurator of Fra Matteo Perier reports the theft of wood, stone and other material of construction from the garden of Perier in Valletta.

The widow Catherina Giardino had sold a place of housing in Valletta to Ninfa Cagliari at the rate established by an expert but it was proven in a court case that the estimation had been made with detriment to Giardino and her interests and the election of new experts required by the Court. She initiates legal proceedings to effect this sentence.

Antonio and Marietta Bezzina from Casal Gregorio report that they found various inaccuracies in the transactions that Marietta's first husband, Vincentio Mifsud had had with Giuseppe Tonna. Ultimately, Tonna owed them money.

On the reverse of the folio, Gratiulla Rivost reports that youths had stolen jewellery from her house in Valletta

Witness statements by Clemente Bonavia and Domenico Grec that they had overheard Aloisietta claim that a certain Domenico had promised to give her a pandata di bastonati by a knight. This they overheard while setting up piping (a canale) in her courtyard in Valletta.

Petrus Hellul, recovering at the Sacra Infermeria, reports that while he was riding from Valletta and in the area of Sarria, he and his companion Ignatius Calleja came across Antonius Xicluna, who assaulted them with a knife (coltello). Visible watermark.