Approval deed of the will made by Luísa do Canto in which she founded an entail.

Documents produced by the entail.

Will of Luísa do Canto ordering, among other dispostions, the foundation of an entail in Angra, Terceira island, with a perpetual obligation of 52 masses prayed every year, wherever the administrator saw fit. Despite that, she ordered that her body should be buried in the chapel of Jesus, in the see of Angra. She named her nephew and niece João Pacheco de Vasconcelos and Luísa de Vasconcelos as first administrators, with the condition that every year they should alternate one another on the administration, as long as Luísa lived, and after their deaths João should appoint one of his sons or daughters to succeed on the administration with the same conditions. Besides her real state she also entailed a black slave named Manuel.