1710. Carta de Manuel Lopes Carvalho, vigário em Meãs do Campo, para Francisco Gomes da Costa, vigário da Colegiada de Santa Maria de Alcáçova, da vila de Montemor-o-Velho.

Private letter from Manuel Lopes Carvalho, vicar in Meãs do Campo, to Francisco Gomes da Costa, vicar of the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de Alcáçova, in the town of Montemor-o-Velho.

The author informs the recipient of the existence of a letter that is of interest in the context of the process.

These letters are part of the process of barring Cipriano de Almeida from marrying Maria Fernandes, 45, a native of Meãs who at the time lived in Alcáçova, Montemor-o-Velho. Domingos Simões stated during this process that, while he was in Porto two years earlier, he had lent money to Maria Fernandes and that she had promised to marry him, even passing a letter to that effect. Maria Fernandes also acknowledged the existence of this promise. Both of them resigned by mutual agreement to this commitment and the supplicant was free of condemnation. Francisco Gomes da Costa, vicar of the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de Alcáçova, in the town of Montemor-o-Velho, received the letters (one from Manuel Lopes Carvalho, vicar of Meãs, and another from Domingos Simões, supplicant of the process), and sent them to Provisor Manuel Moreira Rebelo, who had given orders to receive the bride and groom, and who then suspended this reception.