Documents produced by the entail.

Approval deed of the will made by Ana da Mata, in which she ordered the foundation of an entail.

Declaration deed made by Ana da Mata, in which she disposed that after the death of all administrators appointed by her to administrate the entail she founded on her will, the administration should be handled to her closest relative. If her bloodline was extinguished, then the Misericórdia of Alter do Chão would administrate the entail. However, if this institution misadministrated the entailed properties, then the entail should be handled to the Confraria do Santíssimo Sacramento, and if they also misadministrated the entail, the administration should be transmitted to the Confraria de Nossa Senhora with the same conditions.

Exemplification of the will made by Ana da Mata, in which she ordered the foundation of an entail.

Opening deed of the will made by Ana da Mata, in which she ordered the foundation of an entail.

Extract of the probate inventory made after the death of Ana da Mata, containing a description of the properties that were entailed to the entail she founded on her will.

Will made by Ana da Mata, expressing her wish to be buried in the main church of Alter do CHão and establishing an entail, with a perpetual mass obligation of thirty masses celebrated every year. She named her nephew Bernardo da Fonseca Castanho as first administrator and his daughter after him. After her death, the entail would be administrated, in this order, by the daughter of Antónia Manhãs, by the cousin of padre Manuel da Rosa, by Manuel Freme, by Maria Leitão, by Inês da Silva in ways that each of them would have the administration for only three years each.