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1769. Carta de Pedro Caragol para su primo Jerónimo Cros, maestro de sastre.

Author(s)	Pedro Caragol
Addressee(s)	Jerónimo Cros
In English	Letter from Pedro Caragol to his cousin Jerónimo Cros, a tailor. The author writes to his cousin Jerónimo Cros to cheer him up and hoping he has a soon release from prison. The trial for bigamy against Jerónimo Cros occurred between 1759 and 1769, eventually he was found guilty. Jerónimo Cros got married to Josefa Belenguer in 1755. Two years later he left to Valencia, where he got engaged to Vicenta Sopena, however, he sent her back home and in 1761 he got married in Madrid to Francisca Zelada. He was sent to the Holy Office’s prison on February the 20th 1769. On the top left margin it is written down that the letter was received from the Holy Office of Toledo on April the 4th 1769 for his trial and it was brought by a forerunner”. If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

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[1]	~~Gueronimo~~ ~~tengo resibada la tuia~~
[2]	de 9 de marzo y al no aber escrito mas pr
[3]	ompto es que no fuy al coreo ~~y siento~~
[4]	a lo que dices que eres preso del santo tr
[5]	ibunal de la ynquisicion ~~y aqui te re~~
[6]	mito lo obito del paraco como tu mu
[7]	guer morio ~~y en caso se te oferese otros~~
[8]	papeles escribiras ~~pues te ago a saber~~
[9]	como tu Padre s es muerto a seis anyos
[10]	y Gueronimo Caragol tambien es mue
[11]	rto a tres anyos a ~~y estoy amirado como~~
[12]	no lo sabes ~~y sento mutyo de tu des~~
[13]	grasia ~~y lo que te estimare que me buel~~
[14]	bas despues como as resibido la carta
[15]	y a saber como sales de tu desgrasia
[16]	es lo que se me oferese ~~Ro a Dios te~~
[17]	Gde m a como deo ~~Guererona~~
[18]	12 de Abril 1769
[19]	~~Tu serbidor Pedro~~
[20]	Caragol tu primo
[21]	Gueronimo Cros ~~y memorias de~~
[22]	tu ermana y demas parientes
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