[1767]. Carta de Rita Gertrudes para Francisco Xavier Coelho de Mira, prior e notário.

Private letter from Rita Gertrudes to Francisco Xavier Coelho de Mira, prior and notary.

The author tells the recipient about everything that happened during and after she made her confession to a priest.

The defendant in this process is Manuel de Aragão Costa, priest and confessor. Rita Gertrudes, one of the women that was residing in a religious house in Tavira, accused him of wrong behavior with her. She said that, when he came next to the bed where she was laying sick, for her to confess her sins, he caressed her and made other illicit moves towards her. This accusation motivated the four letters included in the process. The defendant, however, ended up not being condemned.