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1829. Carta de João Geraldes de Matos, prior, para Dona Gertrudes Caetana da Cunha Fialho.

Author(s)	João Geraldes de Matos
Addressee(s)	Gertrudes Caetana da Cunha Fialho
In English	The author asks the addressee and her husband to leave him alone. The defendants in this process are Maria Isabel Barreto de Pina and Gertrudes Magna, both accused of stealing in the house of the Counselor José da Cunha Filhado, who had passed away. The complaint was presented by Gertrudes Caetana Fialho, sister of the deceased and married to João Paulo Fabre. Due to the lack of evidences, the defendants were considered not guilty , but the complainant contested the decision. The defense argued that the letters presented as proof of guilty had no value, since most of they didn’t even have stamps. Some of the letters were believed to have been written by the complainant’s acquaintances or by herself, Gertrudes Fialho. The process contains a petition signed by the people of Torres Vedras, on the defendant’s behalf. If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

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[1]	Illma Senhora Torres Vedras 16 de 7bro de 1829.
[2]	Recebi a de VSa de 12 do Corrente, q prezo, e esti-
[3]	mo; e tendo de responder ao seo Contheudo, devo
[4]	affirmar a VSa, que qdo fui notificado pa de-
[5]	por o Escrivão não tinha em seo poder a
[6]	Licença de S Emcia Como Lá verá nos
[7]	Autos, nem comtava que havia; e se o Seo
[8]	Procurador a tem nunca ma mostrou , e
[9]	foge de mim, e me alnda desacreditando por
[10]	toda a parte injustamte, como há pouco
[11]	aconteceue nas Festas de N Sra da Naza-
[12]	reth em S Pedro da Cadeira, huma
[13]	Legoa em distancia desta Villa - Infeliz
[14]	Prior!!!
[15]
[16]	V Sas tem mto boas testemunhas
[17]	de ouvir dizer, e milhor o explicão as Cartas
[18]	de Rodrigo Antonio de Faria, q V Sas
[19]	ja mandarão juntar aos Autos.
[20]	As minhas Cartas Illma Senhora