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Maarten Janssen, 2014-

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1673. Carta de Manuel Ferreira, padre, para a sua prima, Luísa Ferreira.

Author(s) Manuel Ferreira      
Addressee(s) Luísa Ferreira      
In English

Family letter from Manuel Ferreira, priest, to his cousin, Luísa Ferreira.

The author tells his cousin that her sister's first husband is still alive and is a fisherman.

Maria Ferreira, an Old-Christian, 50, was condemned for bigamy because she married twice while her first husband was still alive. It was her brother-in-law that, together with his wife, Luís Ferreira, Maria's sister, accused her to the Inquisition, after Manuel Ferreira, a priest and cousin of the two women, confirmed that João André, the defendant's first husband, was working as a fisherman in Sertã. Maria was arrested on June 21, 1673, and sentenced to be publicly whipped, besides seven years of exile in Brazil and some other punishments.

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