1766. Carta de Teresa Maldonado para Ignacio Godiafin, pseudónimo de Pedro Pieres.

Letter from Teresa Maldonado to Ignacio Godiafin, pseudonym used by Pedro Pieres.

The author writes to Ignacio Godiafin telling him not to worry about the payment of certain amount of maravedies.

Litigation against Pedro Pieres, a native to France and naturalized in Gibraltar, who had been a military in different companies from which he had deserted. He was accused, together with two cronies, of using false identities for getting alms in churches pretending to be a new Christian converted from Lutheranism. At the time of the arrest three letters and some false passports were seized. He was also accused of desertion. During the proceeding, it was found out he was using at least two pseudonyms (Ignacio Godiafin and Juan Agustín Smit) and he was distorting the places where he was sending the letters from in order to hide his identity and his real whereabouts.