Approval deed of the codicil made by D. Luzia de Vasconcelos in which she founded an entail.

Approval deed of the will made by D. Luzia de Vasconcelos in which she founded an entail.

Codicil of D. Luzia de Vasconcelos rectifying her will and naming her unborn son Manuel as heir to the entail, if he survived the pregnancy and lived after, with the sole obligation that he and his descendants should always have the obligation of celebrating five masses in every year as long as the world lasted. After his death, the entail should be inherited by his elder daughter, that should always be succeeded, preferably, by the eldest female heir, or male in lack of females. If he died, the administration should be given to her brother João Pacheco de Vasconcelos with the same conditions.

Documents produced by the entail.

Will of Luzia de Vasconcelos ordering, among other dispositions, the foundation of an entail composed of all her real estate, with an obligation of one chapel of masses, that being 52 masses a year, celebrated in the cathedral of Angra, Terceira island, as long as the world lasted. She named her husband, João Mendes de Vasconcelos, as first administrator, and her nieces, daughters of João Pacheco, after him. After the death of her nieces, the administration should be always be transmitted from the eldest to the eldest daughter. If the nieces died without descendants, the administration should be given to João de Teive, son of her husband.