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Maarten Janssen, 2014-

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1602. Cópia de carta de João Nunes Baião para Isabel Mendes, sua mãe.

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

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

The author worries about his release. He tells his mother that he received a cutting file, but not a rifle. He asks her to trust and reward the woman courier.

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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Ontem vinta tres de Mayo q foi quintafra vi o seu o qual diz q fez q quintafra a vinte de Mayo não fez boa conta perq segundafra forão vinte. Muitas couzas me não diz q esperava, nẽ me manda o fuzil. A letra leo melhor q toda outra, mas pareçe q canssa VM. E per isso não diz



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