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              13 Archival description results for Valletta

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              MT NAM LCM-147-34 · Item · 16/01/1644
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              [Pro Fra Mattheo Perrier]
              MT NAM LCM-147-13 · Item · 21/05/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              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.

              Curia Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis Civitatis
              MT NAM LCM-147-54 · Item · 28/02/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              The scrittorio (desk) of the elemosinarius of the Grandmaster was stolen in the night together with the money assigned to him for the pursuit of his duties. By means of investigation it was discovered that Bernardino Debono and Micheale Agius had made a false key and used it to break into the elemosinarius' office, took the desk, made it out of the palace, hid the desk in an underground room belonging to Margerita Fiamenzo under the house of Lorenzo Tholossenti. They then enlisted the help of Angelo Portelli who helped take the desk elsewhere. Michael Agius was sentenced to hang, Bernardino Debono was sentenced to row for life, being spared the hanging for his young age, and Angelo Portelli was sentenced to row for three years.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              Contra Vincentium Mallia
              MT NAM LCM-142-21 · Item · 24/11/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Vincenzo Mallia is accused of breaking into the butcher's shop of Domenico Azzoppard (Azzopardi) in Valletta and stealing two pieces of beef (coyri bovini). He was sentenced to two years' community service.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-185-11 · Item · 15/02/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Stephanus Bardagner, a Frenchman known as "Larosa" is accused of theft of jewelry, and specifically that he went to the house of Angelica Metaxi in the Manderaggio of Valletta with the excuse of inviting her to dinner together with her husband Giovanni to dinner, and while there he took and stole several pieces of jewelry (described). He was sentenced to row for life.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-147-70 · Item · 17/05/1643
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Filippo Guerio known as Sciacquetta, buonavoglia rower on the Santa Maria, is accused of stealing money from Lucio Scarso while he was buying biscuits from a slave in the public square in Valletta. Witnesses are interrogated for both the prosecution and the defence. No sentence is included.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              Contra Nicolaum San Filippo
              MT NAM LCM-146-40 · Item · 10/11/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Nicolaus Sanfilippo is accused of assaulting Aloysio D'Amato in Valletta after they had disagreements over the sale of a sangonano. He was sentenced to row for three years.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              Contra Michaelem Falzon
              MT NAM LCM-317-57 · Item · 25/11/1712
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Vincentius Madiona, from Valletta, an apothecary, reports that he needed to buy some birds of prey (uccelli di cacciai) and asked for them to a certain Michaele, pullalloro. On their way back they had a verbal altercation with a couple of men in the service of Rafaele Balsani and Madiona later found out that one of the men broke into Michaele's workspace and stole a couple of birds from him.

              Magna Curia Castellania
              MT NAM LCM-146-15 · Item · 13/03/1642
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Josephus "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 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 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-146-39 · 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