Acórdão em relação, judging a civil process between José Coelho Varela, plaintiff, assisted by the procurador da Coroa, against José Teixeira da Fonseca and his wife, defendants, on the administration of the chapel instituted by Paulo Arrais de Mendonça, in the church of Misericórdia of Almada. The opponents were Estêvão Cordeiro Soares and D. Francisca Machone, his wife.
The defendants did not present any opposition to the libel of accusation, acknowledging that they were illegitimate administrators of the chapel. The sentence gives the opponents' allegations as unproven, as it was not possible to prove that D. Francisca Machone was a family member of the last administrator of the chapel. It judges the chapel as a vacant for the Crown, and must be registered in the Coroa and Torre do Tombo books. It orders that the administration be delivered to the plaintiff, in the form of the warrant he had, and, with the sentence, within two months, he must request the administration letter at the Desembargo do Paço.