1649. Carta de Diego Gómez, mercader, para su hermano Gabriel Díaz Flores, médico.

Letter from Diego Goméz, merchant, to Gabriel Díaz flores, physician.

The author asks his brother to send him some meat.

The accused in this process was Gabriel Díaz Flores, physician of Santa Olalla (Toledo). In 1649 he was accused by the Inquisition Tribunal of Toledo of abetment and interfering with the visit of the tribunal in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) and surroundings. Gabriel Díaz Flores had asked to the secretary of the Inquisition Tribunal if this had received testimonies against any member of the family of Manoel Rodrigues Dias, because the latter was afraid that one of his servant had denounced him and his family for judaizing. The accused had this letter with him at the moment of the arrest. The letter was joined to the proceedings as a proof, in order to look for signs of Judaism in it. Eventually, Gabriel Díaz Flores was condemned to three years of banishment, in which he had to stay at a minimum distance of twelve leagues from Madrid, Toledo, Santa Olalla (Toledo) and Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), and to the payment of three hundreds «ducados».

In relation to this letter, in the upper margin there is the following annotation: «Los papeles contenidos en esta y más siete hojas siguientes entregó don Sebastián de Medrano entre los demás, que dijo haber hallado en poder del doctor Gabriel Díaz Flores». («These and other seven sheets were handed over by don Sebastián de Medrano, among others, and he said that he found them among the possessions of Gabriel Díaz Flores»).