Will made by padre Manuel Dias Brandão, in which he ordered the foundation of an entail.

Exemplification of the will made by padre Manuel Dias Brandão, in which he ordered the foundation of an entail.

[Contains a codicil made in 1668-12-07 disposing over non-entailed assets and a description of the entailed properties in Monte da Pedra, Crato and Gafete].

Documents produced by the entail.

Will made in Gafete by padre Manuel Dias Brandão, in which he ordered the foundation of an entail and chapel composed of several properties in Crato, Monte da Pedra and Gafete, over which he imposed a perpetual pious obligation of one mass celebrated every week. He named his nephew Álvaro Fraião as first administrator during his lifetime and, after his death, he would be succeeded by his sister, whose name is not mentioned, and from there on the succession should always continue, preferably, on the eldest male heir. All administrators would be obliged to purchase a "bula de defunto" every year as long as they existed for the redemption of the institutor's soul. No administrator could ever marry with another person of the so called "infected races" nor committ crimes of lese-majeste, or, otherwise lose the administration.