Letter (number unidentified). To Alonso Sanchez of Toledo and Bernardina de Quiros, Toledo, May 27, 1570

A contradi for the purchase of several houses for the convent.

ALONSO Sanchez of Toledo and his wife, Bernardina de Ouirós, both of Toledo, have sold to the Señora Doña Teresa de Jesus, nun of the Carmelite Order and foundress of the convent lately established here under the title of Discalced nuns of Saint Joseph, also to the prioress and nuns of the said convent, several large houses in their possession which they had built near San Nicolas, on condition that a Missa cantata and Office shall be annually celebrated for them in the said convent on Lady- day. This contrail was agreed to at the parlour grill on the same day by the undermentioned religious who have signed it.

''One of the first and most austere of the Discalced friars. He entered the Order as a lay-brother but his superiors obliged him to take Holy Orders. He was twice Provincial.

Teresa de Jesus, Carmelite, Anne of the Angels, Ana de la Palma, Guiomar de Jesus, Isabel of St. Paul, Petronilla of St. Andrew, Maryof St. Ángelus, Frances of St. Albert, Brianda of St. Joseph.

Signed May 27, 1570, in the presence of Juan Sotelo, lawyer of Toledo.

With this document is another as follows:

On the twenty-seventh of this month Antonio Vasquez, citizen of Toledo, is authorised to recover in her name all debts owing to the Señora Doña Teresa de Jesus.