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[1702]. Carta de Filipa Maria para António de Castro Ribeiro.

Author(s)	Filipa Maria
Addressee(s)	António de Castro Ribeiro
In English	Request letter from Filipa Maria, the daughter of an attorney, to António de Castro Ribeiro. The author asks money from the addressee in order to travel to Castelo Branco and find an uncle who will take her in. She argues that she is alone and helpless ever since her family has been arrested. The medicine doctor Manuel Soares Brandão was arrested by the Inquisition under the accusation of Judaism. He was apparently betrayed by Filipa Maria, an orphan who used to write to several Jewish people after her family was arrested, asking for money so that she could travel and join an uncle who lived far away. Her brother, a soldier, also made the same kind of requests. 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]	~~Meu sor~~ ~~quem a vmce lhe fas esta su~~
[2]	plica he felipa ma fa
[3]	de Mel da Costa Bara
[4]	ndão solicitador de cau
[5]	zas q deos tem morador q
[6]	foi no logar do sebo ~~q pla~~
[7]	sua morte fiquei em poder
[8]	de meu tio gaspar de sou
[9]	za Teles medico q foi em aze
[10]	itão he agora os veijo ~~pre~~
[11]	prezos em trabalhos ~~e a-~~
[12]	gora estou tan dezenpara
[13]	da q no mundo a similhan
[14]	te dezenparo pois bem q
[15]	naquela prizzão me não po
[16]	dem valer ~~asin q pa fugir~~
[17]	a tantas penas me he forco
[18]	zo valerme do seu empa
[19]	ro pa q me favoreca com
[20]	huma esmola pa ajuda
[21]	de hir pa castelo branco aonde Tenho hun tio ~~o q fio no~~
[22]	animo de vmce me despache esta peticão tam justa plo por
[23]	tador q he de caza coando Vmce seija servido pois eu avia
[24]	de cer a portadora se me fora posivel mas sou huma disgra
[25]	sada donzela de Treze anos he estou oculta ~~he coando vmce~~
[26]	não venha no conhesimto eu conheco a vmce por meu emparo
[27]	pois senper o foi he sera a hultima em q a vmce lhe pe
[28]	sa ~~e portesto pedir a deos lhe aumte a vida~~ ~~serva de vmce~~
[29]	~~Felipa Maria~~