1542. Carta de Francisco Dias para Estêvão de Lagos, desembargador.

Private letter from Francisco Dias to Estevão de Lagos, judge of the High Court

The author writes to ask the addressee's intervention in a court case.

Several letters can be found in the collection "Corpo Cronológico", a documental fund under the custody of the National Archive of Torre do Tombo. It is a collection composed mostly by documentation of judicial and administrative nature, from 1161 to 1696. After the earthquake of 1755 many scattered documents were incorporated in this fund. Just like the name suggests, the main criterion of organization within the Corpo Cronológico is the documents' date.