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1758. Carta de Casimiro González, cura, para José Sáez Cantos, pseudónimo de José Cantos Villasante, sacristán y maestro de primeras letras.

Author(s)	Casimiro González
Addressee(s)	José Cantos Villasante
In English	Letter from Casimiro González, a priest, to José Sáez Cantos, pseudonym of José Cantos Villasante, a sacristan and literacy teacher. The author asks José Sáez Cantos about his situation, he wants to know if he is a soldier or a convict. Following an accusation of bigamy, a process occurred between 1755 and 1760 against José Sáez Cantos, although his real name was José Cantos Villasante. The defendant, a native to Valdefinjas (Zamora) and a resident in Buitrago del Lozoya (Madrid), was found guilty. He got married first to Manuela Mansilla in Tagarabuena (Toro, Zamora) in August 1746; and a second time to Isabel de la Cita in Madrid in October of the same year. In order to get married a second time, he paid off three witnesses who said he was a single man. José Cantos Villasante was ratted on to the Holy Office by Manuel Zarzuelo, a dyer native to Buitrago (Madrid), who knew the defendant. After Manuel Zarzuelo denounced it, he was asked to write to “the people he considered to be of the most satisfaction, good Cristians and truthful”, in order to gather reliable information about José Cantos Villasante’s conduct. As a result of this task, Manuel Zarzuelo gathered six letters (PS6135-PS6140) written by different people in 1755. During the process, it was verified that the defendant abandoned Manuela Masilla a few days after they got married and months later he had tried to kill her with a knife. Three years after this happened, José Cantos Villasante wrote a letter to Casimiro González, priest of Villamuriel de Campos (Valladolid). In that letter he confessed his repentance and expressed his wish to go back and live with Manuela Masilla in the company of a daughter from his second marriage. Casimiro González showed the letter to Manuela Masilla and she asked him to write a letter on her behalf (PS6141). Finally, there is a last letter signed by Casimiro González attached to the process documentation. The addressee of this last letter is José Cantos (PS6142). The eight letters were used as exhibit to the process. In the upper margin of this letter, the following annotation can be read: "Recognized on July the 17th 1758. I certify it". 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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~~Mui Señor mio~~

~~aviendo recivido una de vmd en cumplimiento de su contenido puse la que en ella venia inclusa en manos de Manuela Mansîlla esposa de vmd.~~ la que no obstante el mal proceder de vmd y los muchos trabajos que despues de su ausencia ha exprimentado, y continua en su posesion, a mis instancias hecha cargo de que no ay pecador por tenaz que sea que no tenga algun arrepentimiento, aunque tambien me dijo que el que una vez es malo, siempre se reputa por malo, se vencio a si Ds lo permite, coabitar con vmd aunque esta la pobre vien acabada que discurro que el pecado de vmd, le paga la pobre, como todo jenero humano paga el de nuestro Padre Adan, quanto a negociar algun empeño para alivio de vmd no podemos jirar por aca menos que vmd nos informe si se alla militar, o presidiario, y el tiempo que le falta, para cumplir la sentencia, por tanto puede vmd sin perder tiempo informar de todo para poner los mejores medios en esto que es lo principal, que lo accesorio, siendo bueno el proceder de vmd, este lo compondra en vreve, es quanto devo decir a vmd a quien Ds prospere ms as y mande seguro

~~en esta suya de villamuriel y enero 10 de 1798 De vmd Seguro Servidor y cappan Dn Casimiro Gonzalez Sr Joseph Saez Cantos.~~

~~De vmd no llego carta a sus manos ast ora.~~

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