1601. Carta de António do Salvador, frade, para Gabriel de Brito, ministro provincial.

Private letter from António do Salvador, friar, to Gabriel de Brito, provincial minister.

The author tells a superior about the case of the friar Vicente Borges, and asks him to send a friar that is also a musician, to animate the convent.

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.