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1540. Carta Fernão Mendes, procurador, para um destinatário anónimo, membro da Inquisição.

Author(s)	Fernão Mendes
Addressee(s)	Anónimo
In English	Private information from Fernão Mendes, an attorney, to a non identified addressee. The author tells the addressee that his defendant wants to confess his guilt. Most of the letters that were included as instrumental evidence in the Inquisition proceedings against Simão Franco were written by the defendant's attorney, Fernão Mendes, and were addressed to the Inquisitor in charge, João de Melo. They contain some pressure in favor of the defendant. Simão Franco started by denying that he practiced Judaism, stating that the witnesses who were accusing him were his capital enemies, but ended by admitting his guilt. 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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[2]	Sor ~~Simão frãco pso na cadea da sancta in~~
[3]	quisição me mãdou ora diz q lhe notifica
[4]	rão hũa sẽtẽça p q o ẽtregavão aa curia
[5]	secular apellãdo elle pa o serenissimo sor
[6]	Iffe petie apostollos reverẽtialles sepe
[7]	deferatur apellatio
[8]	in forma solita. ~~Jũte Vm esto~~
[9]	ao e mãdeo ao sor douctor jo de
[10]	mello q pnũsie sua mçe sobre esta ape
[11]	llação poq este homẽ nõ tẽ quẽ po elle faça
[12]	cousa algũa pa ir requerer ẽ auda/ ou qm
[13]	mãde dar sua mçe a vta pa se acõselhar o q
[14]	ha de fazer poq me dise ora hũ seu reque
[15]	rẽte q quer pedir mesiricordia e pdão de
[16]	seu pecado ~~e tẽdoo fco cõsultalloei~~ ~~cõ elle fa~~
[17]	ra o q quiser destas duas cousas.
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