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[1702]. Carta de Filipa Maria para o doutor Lopo Gil do Crato.

Author(s)	Filipa Maria
Addressee(s)	Lopo Gil do Crato
In English	Request letter from Filipa Maria, the daughter of an attorney, to Lopo Gil do Crato, a medicine doctor. The author asks money from the addressee in order to travel to Castelo Branco and find an uncle who will take her in. She argues that she is alone and helpless ever since her family has been arrested. The medicine doctor Manuel Soares Brandão was arrested by the Inquisition under the accusation of Judaism. He was apparently betrayed by Filipa Maria, an orphan who used to write to several Jewish people after her family was arrested, asking for money so that she could travel and join an uncle who lived far away. Her brother, a soldier, also made the same kind of requests. 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]	~~Meu Senhor quem a vmce lhe~~
[3]	fas esta peticão de
[4]	mizeria he felipa ma
[5]	fa de Mel da Costa ba
[6]	randão que por morte de
[7]	Meu pai Como a vmce lhe
[8]	he notorio tive minhas
[9]	penas e juntamete pela
[10]	prizão de meos hirmaos
[11]	os he hirmãa he tio o
[12]	Dor gaspar de zouza
[13]	Teles e ajuntamte ou
[14]	tra hirmãa he hirmao
[15]	o soldado ~~e fiquei tam~~
[16]	dezemparada que me he
[17]	forcozo pedir a vmce pe
[18]	lo amor de deos huma
[19]	esmola pois a vmce lhe
[20]	he bem notorio ~~he eu~~
[21]	por estar auzente qua
[22]	zi a nãa vou buscar por ser huma mosa donzela ~~asim~~
[23]	q pa fazer jornada me he necesario vallerme do seu
[24]	emparo q me favoresa com huma esmola pa partir
[25]	pa Castelo branco ~~plo~~ ~~portador~~ q he de ~~caza~~ ~~despa~~
[26]	che esta tão justa peticão plo portador q he de
[27]	caza coando vmce seija servido ~~e portesto pedi~~
[28]	r a deos lhe aumte a vida ~~serva de vmce~~
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[31]	felipa Maria