1607. Carta de Nuno de Passos para o irmão, Gaspar de Passos Figueiroa, meirinho do Eclesiástico.

Request letter sent by Nuno de Passos to his brother, Gaspar de Passos Figueiroa, a bishop's bailiff

The author asks for news and instructs his brother on how to receive letters in prison.

Gaspar de Passos Figueiroa, a bishop's bailiff, was arrested by the Inquisition under the accusation of receiving bribes from some New-Christians he was supposed to arrest, allowing them to flee instead. He was also accused of contacting his own family by letter when he was already in prison; indeed, the Inquisition prisoners were not allowed to reveal "the Saint Office's secret".