[1553]. Carta de Pero Pardo, mercador espanhol, para Andrés de Casanova, seu criado e caixeiro.

Instructions letter from Pero Pardo, a merchant, to Andrés de Casanova, servant and salesman.

The author tells the addressee what he had confessed before the Inquisition. He tells him to stick to the same version himself: that they slept together, and that everybody knew about it.

Pero Pardo was a Spanish merchant from Burgos who was persecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition in 1553, along with his servant, Andrés de Casanova, under the accusation of sodomy. Pero Pardo tried to reach the servant in prison with notes telling him what to say and sending him some ink for him to answer back. They had been living in Portugal for 23 years (the merchant) and 13 years (the servant).