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1607. Carta de Álvaro Belo, frade, para Jorge de Melo e Salvador da Teixeira, inquisidores.

Author(s)	Álvaro Belo
Addressee(s)	Jorge de Melo
In English	Private letter from Álvaro Belo, friar, to Jorge de Melo and Salvador da Teixeira, inquisitors. The author asks for permission to travel to his homeland, Setubal, to try to recover from his disease. The defendant in this process is Álvaro Belo, religious of the Order of St. Francis and guardian of the Convent in the village of Alvito (Alentejo). Natural from Setubal, the defendant is accused of heresy by the Evora Inquisition, for having said at the refectory table that "God formerly ruled better than now" and that he "wished he was God," and also for having written that "all religions were good and in all of them men could be saved if they had faith, among other things. The defendant was denounced by the Father Vicente da Cruz, who felt indignant to hear his words at meal time. The transcribed letters were submitted by the defendant to the Inquisition Table in his defense. Not wanting to present himself voluntarily, the defendant was held captive in the San Francisco Convent. If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

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~~Escrevi a Vsms os dias passados por via do pe fr Anto dos innoçẽtes lente de tEogia no convento de s frco dessa çidade~~ ~~avizou me q lhe responderã Vsms q mandariã a resposta, q ate gora nã vi.~~

~~Despois soçederã mil cousas, q como sã da religiã, callo, mas todas nasçi-das de infinita paixão.~~ ~~de me ds paçiencia: porq nã sendo tido por estra-gado no publico, me arguẽ o secreto imputando a mal meu zello E in-teireza.~~ ~~faça ds sua vontade Em mi q seu sou.~~

~~O todo he q me deu o pe Mro 9 cargos a q respondi Em 24 horas~~ ~~sẽ serẽ sentençeados, me suspendeo, E me pos presidente no convto,~~ ~~E mandou me fosse pa beja ou pa serpa ou viesse ter cõ elle a alcaçar saindo me de casa Em 8 horas.~~

~~Vim me ter cõ elle tã doente como ele bio de çezões todos os dias~~ ~~deu-me licença pa estar aqui algũs dias ate poder mais comigo.~~ ~~E dispẽ-sou q estivesse fora do convento, pa mais guareçer, obrigando me a differir a Vsms o q ja estava p mandado de Vsms E mui obediente.~~

~~Em mui grande cerco me bejo cõ minha doença, E poucas forças~~ ~~pesso a Vsms pellas chagas de ds me dẽ licença pa poder daqui passar a setuval (meu natural) onde, cuido, poderei ter alguma cura, E cobrar alguãs forças,~~ ~~porq Eu nã sinto as cousas da ordẽ tanto, p ser çerto a todos serẽ paixões como estar nesse sto tribunal tido por Reo, sendo Eu que sou com tudo obedientissimo~~ ~~tãbẽ cuido q Vsms me tẽ ja respondido E q he possivel ser me desviada a resposta, pquanto sei de experiençia a pontualidade cõ q se acode a tudo.~~

~~Advirto a Vsms em ds q todas estas cousas não tẽ mais de substançia q as vozes nasçidas de quẽ me nã quer ver Em Capitolo q se bẽ chegando.~~ ~~Sẽ mais~~ ~~xo. cõ todos E gde a Vsms ms as~~ ~~de alcaçer E fevro a 3 de 1607~~

~~fr alvro Bllo~~

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