Affidavit giving license to Garcia de Melo de Torres, Conde da Ponte, to appoint a depositary to receive the value of the extinct public debt instrument of 100 000 réis that previously belonged to the entail he administered, 5 000 cruzados. That sum of money should be used to buy and incorporate assets in that entail.

Auto de arrematação by which Rui Teles de Meneses bought in an auction the farmsteads (quintas) of Balião and of Gibraltar, both located in the outskirts of the village of Alverca, for 640 000 réis.

Auto de vistoria evaluating the state of the houses that the Conde da Ponte owned in Lisboa and wished to incorporate in the entail he administered.

Court sentence confirming the entailment of two farmstead (quintas) in Alverca and houses in Lisboa to the entail administered by Garcia de Melo de Torres, Conde da Ponte.

Dispatch ordering the issue of a precatory letter with the purpose of demanding the payment of 5 000 cruzados to Garcia de Melo de Torres, Conde da Ponte, due to the extinction of a debt instrument which Garcia de Melo, his grandfather, had bought from Casa de Bragança and incorporated in his entail. That sum of money should be delivered to the procurador das Capelas, who would use it to integrate two farmsteads (quintas) in Alverca and houses in Lisboa in the entail administered by the Conde da Ponte.

Evaluation deed of the properties located in Alverca that Rui Teles de Meneses had bought, and the Conde da Ponte wished to incorporate in the entail he administered.

Documents produced by the entail.

Sale and bond deed through which the friars of the convent of S. Domingos of Lisboa sell 10 000 réis of interest to Garcia de Melo for 200 000 réis. Subsequently, Garcia de Melo donated that sum of money to the convent, obligating the friars to celebrate annual masses for his soul.

Subrogation deed through which Garcia de Melo de Torres, Conde da Ponte, and D. Mariana Caetana da Meneses, his wife, administrators of the entail established by Garcia de Melo, used the sum of money they received after the extinction of a public debt instrument of 100 000 réis, which belonged to their entail, to incorporate in it two farmsteads (quintas) located in Alverca and houses in Lisboa.

Will by which Francisco de Melo, Marquês de Sande, husband of D. Leonor Henriques de Torres, established an entail with the third part of his assets, appointing his son, Garcia de Melo de Torres, to be its first administrator. The entail's succession would be conditioned by the same clauses that Garcia de Melo, Francisco's father, had formulated when he founded his own entail. Francisco obligates his heir to support the celebration of annual masses in the church of the convent of S. Domingos of Lisboa, adding to the ones Garcia de Melo had established. He integrates in his entail a public debt instrument of 100 000 réis that his sister, D. Maria Madalena de Meneses, had bequeathed him with that same purpose. D. Maria Madalena had also bequeathed him another public debt instrument of 30 000 réis, with the obligation of celebrating a daily mass, wherever he chose. At the moment, that obligation was being fulfilled by the priest Bartolomeu de Abreu, family chaplain. After his death, it would pass to the friars of the convent of S. Domingos. His son Garcia de Melo should also succeed in the Morgado dos Torres and the institutor also nominated him in the travels to Moçambique and in the Feitoria of Diu. If he died without heirs, it should succeed his daughter D. Madalena Josefa de Mendonça. Francisco appoints the Bispo da Targa, Martim Correia da Silva, his uncle, Manuel Barreto de Sampaio, Francisco Correia de Lacerda and António Monteiro de Mesquita, inquisidor, as his children's tutors.

Will (extract) by which Garcia de Melo, D. Margarida de Castro's husband, establishes an entail with the third part of the couple's assets, including a public debt instrument of 100 000 réis. He ordered his successors to use part of its income to support, each year, the marriage of an orphan girl, before which a mass should be celebrated for his soul. He appoints his eldest son, Francisco de Melo, as the entail's first administrator. He chooses to be buried in the grave he had in the church of the convent of S. Domingos of Lisboa, where the mortal remains of his descendants should thenceforth be interred.
The entail's succession would be conditioned by the same clauses that his father and grandfather had formulated when they had established their entails.

Will (extract) through which Rui Teles de Meneses appoints his nephew, Garcia de Melo de Torres, Conde da Ponte, as his universal heir, leaving him all his patrimony.