JOAN PALOL, _Presbyter, Commissary, and Notary_.
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In the city of Barcelona, on the eighteenth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and two, before me, Cayetano Tuco, Presbyter and
Commissary, appointed for this investigation, and me, the Reverend Juan
Palol, Presbyter Notary, both sworn to preserve secrecy, appeared and
made oath in the name of God our Lord, to declare the truth and preserve
secrecy, Maria Anna Sauri, widow, being also present, in the quality of
honest and religious persons, the Presbyters whose names are signed
below.
Questioned, if she remembered having made a declaration before the
ministers of the Holy Office against any persons for crimes within her
knowledge.
Answered, and related substantially the whole of the preceding
declaration. She requested that it might be produced and read.
The deponent was then informed that the Promotor Fiscal of the Holy
Office presented her as a witness _ad perpetuam rei memoriam_, in a
cause under his direction against the said Teresa Sola, now Salanova,
against the Swiss soldier named Joseph, against Maria Anna Gitar, and
against her sister Magdalena, whose husband’s name is unknown. The
deponent was directed to give attention while her declaration was read,
and if she found anything to add or alter of its contents, to perform it
in such a manner as to declare the truth, as her assertions might
prejudice the said persons. The above deposition was then read _de verbo
ad verbum_, the deponent hearing and understanding the same.
The deponent declared that it was her identical deposition, as it had
been read and recorded; that she had nothing to add or alter respecting
it, for the whole was the truth which she attested and ratified; and
that if necessary, she was ready to repeat the whole against the said
Teresa, Maria Anna, Magdalena, and the soldier, and against the surgeon
Don Felipe, not from malice or ill will, but solely to discharge her
conscience. Secrecy was enjoined upon her anew, which she promised to
observe, and the deponent not being able to write, I, the said
Commissary, sign in her name along with the honest persons.
CAYETANO TUCO, _Presbyter and Commissary_.
FRANCISCO PALMAROLA, _Presbyter_.
ANTONIO HUGUET, _Presbyter_.