Approval deed of the codicil made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida.

Approval deed of the will made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida in which he ordered the foundation of an entail and chapel.

Codicil made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida in which he ordered, among other dispositions, that the Juiz de Fora of Alter do Chão should make an inventory of all his properties. He also left a land for his cousin Bento Garcia during his lifetime, and after his death it should be entailed on the entail he founded on his will.

Composition and partition deed made between Bento Garcia Cardoso, Diogo Cardoso de Almeida and D. Guiomar Palmeira, regarding the partition of the assets left by the deceased Diogo Cardoso de Almeida, her husband and their cousin, and the assignment of the entailed assets that should be shared between Bento Garcia Cardoso and Diogo Cardoso de Almeida, administrators of the entail founded by him.

Court sentence issued by the Juiz de Fora of Alter do Chão in which he judged the codicil made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida as firm and valid, ordering it to be fullfiled.

Court sentence issued by the Juiz de Fora of Alter do Chão in which he judged the will made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida as firm and valid, ordering it to be fullfiled.

Documents produced by the entail.

Opening deed of a codicil made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida.

Opening deed of a will made by the deceased Diogo Cardoso de Almeida, in which he ordered, among other dispositions, the foundation of an entail and chapel.

Will made by Diogo Cardoso de Almeida, former capitão-mor of Alter do Chão, in which he ordered, among other dispositions, the foundation of an entail and chapel with a perpetual mass obligation of one daily mass in the main church of Alter do Chão. He named both his cousins Bento Garcia and Diogo Cardoso de Almeida to share the administration of the entail during their lifetimes and their eldest male heirs after them. He disposed that no administrator could ever marry a person of new-christian, hebrew or mulato descendancy.