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João de Meira Carrilho entail archive
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Dispatch

Dispatch by the Juíz dos Órfãos de Braga, allowing Pedro Teixeira de Azevedo, Estêvão Falcão's uncle and tutor, to negociate and contract his nephew marriage.

Dowry deed

Dowry deed by which João de Meira Carrilho, canon of Braga Cathedral and commissioner of the Inquisition, son of Gonçalo de Meira and Beatriz Mendes, decided to endow his great-niece Isabel de Meira Carrilho, daughter of Gonçalo Carrilho and Ana da Costa, by her marriage to Estêvão Falcão, fidalgo da casa do rei and son of Manuel Falcão Costa and Ana Maria Teixeira. João de Meira Carrilho left a farmstead in São Miguel do Couto, along with 10,000 cruzados to be used for the purchase of a house and land, declaring that all this property would be entailed. The couple would be the first owners, followed by their descendants, with preference given to first-born sons. The administrators were obliged to use the family name of Meira and to pay for the celebration of 50 annual masses in the Church of Espírito Santo, located in the São Marcos Hospital in Braga, where João de Meira Carrilho would be buried. João de Meira Carrilho also declares that he was the administrator of an entail, located in Castelo de Vide, which had been founded by his father João de Meira, chaplain to the late Infante and Cardinal D. Henrique, and to which he appointed his niece as administrator, since she was of "his blood and generation". João de Meira Carrilho acquired more lands and imposed more masses to be celebrated. He also instructed his heirs to place an image of Christ in the chapel of the mother church of Castelo de Vide. The image was engraved with the relics of several saints. It had belonged to the Emperor Charles V and was given to Manuel Álvares Cardoso when he was secretary to the Marquis of Arronches in Madrid, who bequeathed it to João de Meira Carrilho. In view of its importance, the image and the relics engraved in it were considered to be the head of the entail.

Carrilho, João de Meira (flor.1687-1688)

Petition

Petition by Afonso de Meira Carrilho as tutor of Estêvão da Costa's children, asking for the registration of João de Meira Carrilho's entail in the records of the Juíz dos Resíduos of Braga.

Will (extract)

Will (extract) of João de Meira Carrilho ordering the payment of an annual cereal rents to the hospital of São Marcos, releasing his niece and her husband from that duty if they donate other properties to the hospital.

Carrilho, João de Meira (flor.1687-1688)