[1601]. Carta de Gaspar, frade, para Marcos da Trindade, ministro provincial da Sagrada Ordem da Penitência.

Private letter from Gaspar, friar, to Marcos da Trindade, provincial minister of the Sagrada Ordem da Penitência.

The author tells the recipient that he managed to arrest the friar Vicente Borges with the stolen male, and asks him what to do.

This case concerns Vicente Borges, charged with the unlawful exercise of ecclesiastical functions. The defendant was born in Lisbon and claimed to have been a friar in a convent in Coimbra. He was arrested and accused of various crimes, including sodomy, robbery and extorsion, assuming various false names. He was later condemned to go to Angola, with seven years in the galleys, and was considered suspect of heresy and apostasy.