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MOST ILLUSTRIOUS SIR,
Being in company with Juan Bautista Viada, mason, on the twelfth day of the present month, and discoursing of sermons upon the state of the soul, I am very confident that he made this remark; that he had heard sundry persons declare they believed nothing about hell or purgatory, but as for himself, he believed. Which information I give your Excellency in obedience to the dictates of my conscience.
Mataro, November 17th, 1819.
Your most humble servant,
Franch. Plana, Carpenter.
On the road beyond the gate of Batlleix.[21]
Let a commission be expedited for the examination of the above letter.
To the Reverend Father Pedro Martir de S. Vicente, Capuchin and Ex Lecturer of his order.