1599. Carta de Pedro das Chagas, pseudónimo de Vicente Borges, frade, para Rodrigo de Santa Catarina, frade.

Private letter from Pedro das Chagas, pseudonym of Vicente Borges, friar, to Rodrigo de Santa Catarina, friar.

The author, pretending to be the friar Pedro das Chagas, asks the recipient for money, under the guise that he will travel to Viana.

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.