1644. Carta de Pedro de Baltanas para su sobrina Lorenza de Baltanas.

Letter from Pedro de Baltanas to his niece Lorenza de Baltanas.

The author writes his niece to apologise for all the time in which he has not written her. He asks her about her health and about the health of other relatives, and gives her news about some relatives.

In 1644, Lorenza de Baltanas was accused of witchcraft. She had been denounced by Felipe Lozano, who claimed that she had confessed it to his maid. Lorenza de Baltas, widow of Alfonso Gutiérrez, had a relationship with Cristóbal de Medina, with whom she wanted to get married, but he rejected her and married another woman. Afterwards, she married Luis de Orejón Acuña, but rumours had it that her relationship with Cristóbal had not ended. Lorenza resorted to a witch not to be rejected by Cristóbal, and he afterwards claimed that for this reason he had become impotent. Eventually, Cristóbal died and Lorenza was sentenced to three years of banishment and was reprehended.