[1500-1599]. Carta de Jerónimo Gonçalves, preso no aljube, para destinatário não identificado.

Request letter from Jerónimo Gonçalves, prisoner of the bishop's authority, to an unidentified addressee

The author writes a friend of his, giving him various instructions intended to help his defense.

A judicial annotation, in bad condition, at the end of the letter, suggests that the prisoner Jerónimo Gonçalves had tried to send that same letter inside a piece of bread.

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.