1737. Carta de Fernando Vázquez, abaniquero, para su hijo Francisco Vázquez, ayudante de cámara.

Letter from Fernando Vázquez, fa maker, to his son, Francisco Vázquez, valet.

The author tells his son Francisco Vázquez that Agustin Pacheco is married.

The defendant in this process for bigamy was Agustín Pacheco, a barber, surgeon and valet from Tordesillas (Valladolid) and resident in Seville. Agustín Pacheco had married for the first time in Barcelona with Raimunda Tomás and a second time in Seville with Rosalía Ramírez. In order to be able to get married the second time, he claimed that his first wife had died and paid two witnesses to swear that he was single. Agustín Pacheco sought authorization to be absent for six months and never appeared again, so the process remained incomplete. The informer was his second wife, Rosalía Ramírez, who handed over to the tribunal the letters written by Antonia Gutiérrez (PS6001), mother of the accused, and by María Pacheco (PS6002), sister of the accused. The letter here transcribed is the answer from Fernando Vázquez to his son Francisco Vázquez, valet in Llerena, after this had asked his father to discover if it was true that Agustín Pacheco, who also worked as a valet in Llerena, had got married a second time in the city of Seville.