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Maarten Janssen, 2014-

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1815. Carta de Domingo Cortés, salteador, para su mujer Isabel García.

Author(s) Domingo Cortés      
Addressee(s) Isabel García      
In English

Letter from Domingo Cortes, highwayman, to his wife Isabel García.

The author gives his wife some instruction about the person who bears the letter.

Manuel Pérez, Galician, who called himself Antonio Barral, together with two other men, were accused of being a highwayman in the region near Setúbal and in Alentejo. They were seized a dagger, two picklocks, a false passport, and three letters. Two of the letters were written by Domingos Cortés, member of the gang of Pedro Indiano, a prisoner in the jail of O Limoeiro.

This case, like many others, proves that the memories of the travellers crossing the country, who told of highwaymen and robberies, were actually correct. Robberies and bandit groups, some of them very dangerous, were quite frequent along the roads of Portugal. It is interesting to note that most of the crew had Castilian origins.

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Lisboa y maio 15 de 1815
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querida esposa deseo tu buena sa

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lu con la de nuestras queridas ma
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dres y todos mis ermanos politicos
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y que gocen todos felices prosperida
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des La mia es Buena para lo que
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me quieran mandar

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YsaBel, a eL dador de

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esta lo agasajaras lo mejor que pue
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das y le daras entrada en casa que es
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mui amigo mio que estubo conmigo en
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setubal quando tu estubistes alla
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y me bino a ber a esta el que me iso
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un fabor que no se me olbida nunca
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lo ospearas o lo dejaras estar en casa
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el tienpo que estubiere en esa que es
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persona de sastifacion

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Da mis afetos a todos los

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Besinos y a todos los que te pre
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gunten por mi
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A todos los ermanos y mios

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