Approval deed of the will made by the deceased Manuel Mendes Embaraçador, in which he ordered the foundation of an entail.

Documents produced by the entail.

Opening deed of the will made by the deceased Manuel Mendes Embaraçador, in which he ordered the foundation of an entail.

Will by which Manuel Mendes Embaraçador expressed his wish to be buried in the cathedral of Portalegre and established an entail comoposed of his tapada da Ribeira with a perpetual obligation of an annual mass. The institutor named his son João Mendes as first administrator during his lifetime and, after his death, the succession should continue, preferably, on the eldest male heir. No cleric could never succeed on the administration, as well as illegitimate sons nor any administrator who married with a person of the so-called "infected races".