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1602. Cópia da carta de Isabel Mendes para João Nunes Baião, seu filho.

Author(s) Isabel Mendes      
Addressee(s) João Nunes Baião      
In English

Copy of a family letter from Isabel Mendes to her son João Nunes Baião, a prisoner by the Inquisition.

The author worries about her son in prison and whether or not he is receiving all the food and other goods she sends him daily.

Thirty of the letters exchanged between Isabel Mendes and her son, João Nunes Baião, imprisoned in Goa since 1600, were seized by the inquisitors in 1603 and included in the proceedings against the mother. Isabel Mendes had written five of them, and her son, the other twenty-five. A complete net of servants and slaves had contributed to the correspondence exchange. After the system was discovered, Isabel Mendes was arrested and the letters were transcribed by the Goa Inquisition and sent to Lisbon. The cipher that some of them exhibited was replaced by alphabetic expressions.

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E isto per cauza do portador ser mto appressado q quando qua
[2]
vem não lugar a nada, nẽ q lhe preguntar algũa Couza,
[3]
E assi como vem appressado, vem tambem devagar, q pro
[4]
q qua chegue me faz ver a estrella, e senão vede q a dez do mez
[5]
veo aqui, e não me faltou q beijarlhe os pés, e rogandolhe
[6]
mto q viesse qua ameude, e mtos mimos, e com dinheiro q cada
[7]
vez

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