1721. Carta de denúncia de Manuel Martins Ribeiro, padre, para João Correia de Moura, prior.

Denunciation letter from Manuel Martins Ribeiro, a priest, to João Correia de Moura, a prior.

The author recounts to the addressee how a man in his parish disrespected him while he was reading aloud in church a decreet by the Inquisition.

The Inquisition archives contain, apart from the around 40 thousand individual proceedings ("processos"), a collection of scattered charges, for which the Inquisition "Promotor" had to decide whether or not to prosecute. Complaints, confessions, letters by the commissioners or about different stages of each proceedings are some of the document types that can be found in these books. This letter has been kept among such documentation.