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1805. Carta de Manuel Pereira Graça, médico, para Bernardo de Vasconcelos.

Author(s)	Manuel Pereira da Graça
Addressee(s)	Bernardo de Vasconcelos
In English	Request letter from Manuel Pereira Graça, a physician, to Bernardo de Vasconcelos, a member of the Inquisition. The author complaints about a judge who mistreated his case and wants the addressee to intercede for him. He explains that he has too many enemies and fears an inquisitorial persecution. Manuel Pereira da Graça was a physician who had studied Medicine in the University of Coimbra after having traveled in France. He was prosecuted for heresy. Although he recognized that he spoke frequently against the Church, he explained his reasoning to the Inquisition: he thought that there were too many priests, that they often abused young girls in confession and that miracles were hard to prove. But he only wanted to try the soundness of the priests’ arguments, that was all. He received a light sentence. 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]	para não poder sahir da comarca d' Aveiro, vou
[2]	por este meio pór nas mãos de vsa, a fim de que
[3]	vsa se digne representa-lo ao Tribunal do
[4]	Santo officio o seguinte acontecimento
[5]	Foi-me necessário ir pessoalment requerer ao
[6]	audiençia de Serem na comarca d' Aveiro no dia
[7]	16 do corrente mez, e como o juiz me não qui-
[8]	zesse tomar os meus testos, nem acceitar o aggra
[9]	vo, que por isso delle dara, ouverão rezões de
[10]	ua e outra parte de sorte que elle me au
[11]	tuou, e deixou prezo na mesma cadeia, aon
[12]	de estavamos; ~~requeri-lhe a ma homenagem,~~
[13]	a qual elle não so me senegou, mas passou a
[14]	fazer as maeores vexações de sorte que me
[15]	foi necessario recorrer ao corregedor, o qual lo-
[16]	go me concedeu homenagem em toda a comar
[17]	ca. ~~No pouco tempo que esteve prezo na da ca~~
[18]	dea mostrei sempre alegria e tanto que cogi
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