The Iberian Crowns' Union (1580-1640) enabled a deeper knowledge of both Portuguese and Spanish conquests. Some circuits and connections arouse from the activities of enlightened bureaucrats and clergyman, commissioned to register and describe Eastern and Western parts of the world, or sent to accomplish day to day administration or evangelic duties that should be informed to their superiors. Manuel Severim de Faria, Chanter of Évora, not only created but was also at the centre of one of these important circuits, from which took also part, among others, Vice-Roy Diogo do Couto and friars Cristovão de Lisboa and Vicente do Salvador. Others, less notorious, used to send letters that traveled amazingly fast, informing such events as the War against the Dutch in Bahia, in 1624-25.
Iberian Crowns' Union; clergyman enlightened; Manuel Severim de Faria.