[1582-1584]. Carta de Manuel Leitão, ex-guarda do Santo Ofício, para [João de Oliveira].

Request letter from Manuel Leitão, former guard of the Inquisition of Coimbra, to [João de Oliveira].

The author asks for some favors to someone he trusts.

Violante Nunes, born in Seia, was a new christian. While she was held in the jail of the Inquisition of Coimbra, she gave birth to a boy that many people could attest was the son of Manuel Leitão, a former guard in the same jail. This letter was probably sent by Manuel Leitão, who at that time was in Lisbon serving a sentence, to João de Oliveira, in Santa Comba Dão. The previous crime of Manuel Leitão was the facilitation of correspondence between inmates and their families and friends.