In obedience to the dictates of my conscience and the counsel of my
confessor, Padre Gervasio Minguella, Carmelite Calzado, I inform your
Excellency of the following act which I have committed. Upon three
several times, at the solicitation of one of my companions, I went to
visit a woman for the purpose of learning, by a divination with cards,
whether a certain young man, to whom I am betrothed, would return hither
from Olot, where he now is. The above woman, having consulted the cards,
answered that he would return; but that it would be sometime first.
Other things she also informed me by divination. The woman’s true name I
do not know, but she is called Pepa dels Gossos, and lives in the Calle
dels Tallers. I entreat that your Excellency will pardon this weakness
of mine, for I was not aware that I was committing an offence. My
confessor informs me of the fact that I have been guilty, and that I
must, within six days, give notice of the same to your Excellency.
God preserve your Excellency many years.