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. The title is a reference to its first line (''De noticia de torto que fecerum a Laurencius Fernãdiz''.. ). The text is about the persecutions, violence and robbery by the sons of Gonçalo Ramires against Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha, a

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, all of whom were heirs of Gonçalo Ramires. The document was probably written in the region of Braga. This document is preserved at the Portuguese Nacional Archives.

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