1597. Carta de amor de Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, mercador, para a noiva e prima, Beatriz Rodrigues.

Instructions letter from Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, a merchant, to his fiancée and cousin, Beatriz Rodrigues.

The author writes from Bordeaux to Monforte telling his fiancée to join him in France helped by a road companion that he is sending to her. He tells her what her dowry shall contain: 500 thousand "réis" traded in merchandise.

A New Christian, Simão Rodrigues, was arrested when he went from Bordeaux to Lisbon. The letters he had brought from Bordeaux, sent by another New Christian, the merchant Duarte Rodrigues, were ceased by the Inquisition.