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Account of execution of the will

Account of execution of the will made by Branca da Câmara, given by her husband, in which he declared that he have fulfilled all the dispositions left on the will of his deceased wife.

Câmara, Diogo Paim da (flor.1518)

Will

Will made by Branca da Câmara in which she founded an entail and ordered the construction of a chapel as big as the chapel of Afonso Eanes Quaresma in the church of Santa Cruz, in Vila da Praia, with a perpetual obligation of a one yearly mass celebrated in All Soul's day until the chapel was finished, and after it was fully built the obligation should rise to 5 perpetual masses celebrated every year in the Lent. She named her husband Diogo Paim as first administrator and her daughter Catarina after his him, if she ever got married, and Catarina should be succeeded by Cristóvão Paim, son of Branca da Câmara, and after him all of her children, preferring the uncle to the nephew. After all of her sons died, the administration should be inherited by the eldest grandson, son of her eldest son, always continuing, preferably on the eldest male heir after him.

Câmara, Branca da (flor.1518)