[1600]. Carta de de Vicente Borges, frade, para seu pai, Salvador Borges, barbeiro.

Private letter from Vicente Borges, friar, to his father, Salvador Borges, barber.

The author tells his father that he had been arrested by two priests and has now no other choice but to stay where he is. He says he has been very sick and asks his father to deliver a letter to the provincial priest. He also sends recommendations to other family members.

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.