Court proceedings made on the cause that was presented by D. Maria da Silva de Almeida, plaintiff, before the Juiz dos Órfãos de Lisboa, Francisco Ferreira Encerrabodes regarding the succession on the administration of the entail and chapel founded by D. Luís de Almeida de Vasconcelos, with entailed propertis in the islands São Tomé and Ano Bom, against Martinho Afonso de Melo, minor and defendant, who was accused of having usurped the entail's administration. The plaintiff would proof, among other articles, that she was entitled to the entail's administration based on several clauses of the foundation deed, specially one that privileged the legitimate sons or daughters before the natural, legitimized sons.

[Includes a termo de curadoria on behalf of the defendant, Martinho Afonso de Melo]