1723. Carta do padre João da Costa para os Inquisidores de Coimbra.

Denunciation letter from João da Costa, a priest in jail, to the Inquisitors of Coimbra.

The author denounces another priest, who is in jail with him in Braga, for abjuration of the Catholic faith.The Inquisition archives contain, apart from the around 40 thousand individual proceedings ("processos"), a collection of scattered charges, for which the Inquisition "Promotor" had to decide whether or not to prosecute. Complaints, confessions, letters by the commissioners or about different stages of each proceedings are some of the document types that can be found in these books. This letter has been kept among such documentation.