Certificate of an exemplification of a will of D. Mariana de Paiva, issued at the request of Sancho Dias de Saldanha, administrator of her chapel.

Exemplification of a will of D. Mariana de Paiva, issued at the request of Sancho Dias de Saldanha, administrator of her chapel.

Documents produced by the entail.

Will (extract) by which D. Mariana de Paiva bequeaths 32 800 reis of interest in the Casa dos Escravos to her niece and goddaughter, D. Mariana Salema, daughter of the desembargador dos Agravos Diogo Fernandes Salema, and her descendants afterwards. She establishes an obligation of twelve annual masses, one each month, in the convent of S. Francisco of Lisboa. She also bequeaths her niece 40 alqueires of foros in Torres Vedras with the obligation of five other masses. If D. Mariana Salema has already died at the time of her aunt's death, or doesn't have any children, the entail shall be given to one of her siblings. If their lineage is extinguished, the entail shall be annexed to her chapel of S. Romão with the same obligation.