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1636. Carta de Ana do Vale Romba para destinatários anónimos.

Author(s)	Ana do Vale Romba
Addressee(s)	Anónimo387
In English	Private letter from Ana do Vale Romba to unknown addressees. The author asks the inquisitors to act according to the counter-enquiries she sends in attach. This letter is one of the many diligences done by Ana do Vale Romba to defend her husband, António Barbosa, half new-christian, arrested for Judaism, along with his nephew, Manuel Barbosa. Ana do Vale Romba claimed that her husband was arrested based on the false testimonies of his enemies. «Very honourable sirs, Being a woman and, therefore, being unable to personally present to the Holy Office the causes of justice of António Barbosa and Manuel Barbosa, in prison for so many years, probably due to false testimonies of enemies who will be presented to you as serious ministers, concerned only with the salvation of the souls, excuses me from offering in your hands and in your names this counter-enquiry which shows what I claim above and about which I ask you, by the wounds of Christ, to require the usual diligences is such matters, so that the truth can come clear, as it is the goal of this holy court; I ask God for you. Alenquer, 6th May 635. Ana Do Vale» 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]	~~Mto Illustres sõrs~~ ~~o ser molher e não poder pesoalmte Repreçen~~
[2]	tar a esa santa menza as cauzas de justiza
[3]	de Antonio barboza e mel barboza que ha
[4]	tantos annos padesem nesa prisão, por ven
[5]	tura, por testemunhos falsos de enemiguos
[6]	que a vssrias serão preçentes como ministros
[7]	tão Retos e que só tratão da salvasão das
[8]	almas me desculpa para com esta ofere
[9]	ser nas mãos de vssrias, e em seaus nomes deles
[10]	ese papel de contraditas que bem mostrão
[11]	o que asima diguo, e sobre que pesso a vssrias
[12]	pelas chagas de jesu cristo mandem fazer
[13]	as deligençias que em materias de tanto
[14]	pezo costumão para que a verdade se
[15]	saiba que he só o intento dese santo tri
[16]	bunal ~~cujo aumento das enlustres~~
[17]	pesoas de vosassrias fico pedindo a ds
[18]	noso snor e etc ~~alemquer 6 de maio 636~~
[19]	~~Anna do vale~~