1601. Carta de Vicente Borges para Francisco Rodrigues.

Private letter from Vicente Borges to Francisco Rodrigues.

The author warns the recipient that he is sending him a mule, taken by a carrier who also takes two pennies, and excuses himself, saying that he had not done this before because he had no one to take the animal.

This case concerns Vicente Borges, charged with the unlawful exercise of ecclesiastical functions. The defendant was born in Lisbon and claimed to have been a friar in a convent in Coimbra. He was arrested and accused of various crimes, including sodomy, robbery and extorsion, assuming various false names. He was later condemned to go to Angola, with seven years in the galleys, and was considered suspect of heresy and apostasy.