Documents produced by the entail.

Composition deed between D. Jorge Henriques das Alcáçovas, on behalf of himself and his wife, D. Maria de Meneses, and the promotor dos resíduos e cativos de Lisboa. Jorge Henriques was first married to D. Catarina Brandão, and he mentions that in her will she ordered 168 masses for her soul, leaving some properties for payment that she took in the third part of her assets: the beach houses, the rents paid by Ambrósio Pereira de Berredo and D. Violante Eugénia de Castro, D. Nuno Álvares Pereira’s wife, the Quinta da Arrentela, and the Casal da Murteira. When D. Catarina died, her daughters were minors and the value of the properties she mentioned exceeded the third part of her assets. This deed was made following the partitions and the judgement of this case, with some proceedings being detailed. To solve the hurdle and assure the fulfilment of the pious charges, Jorge Henriques proposed the entailment of the Casal da Murteira near Loures, in the outskirts of Lisboa, and of the rent paid by D. Violante Eugénia de Castro from the beach houses. It inserts a dispatch from the promotor dos resíduos (1624-08-03). It transcribes at the end: a letter-of-attorney from D. Maria de Meneses, authorising her husband to subrogate the Casal da Murteira near Loures, and the rent paid by D. Violante de Castro for the beach houses (1624-07-20); a certificate attesting to the authenticity of D. Maria’s letter-of-attorney (1624-07-27); and a certificate attesting to the authenticity of the tabelião Pedro da Pena’s certificate attesting to the authenticity of D. Maria’s the letter-of-attorney (1624-08-08).

Court sentence in which two assets are entailed to the chapel of D. Catarina Brandão to ensure the accomplishment of the pious charges that were established: the Casal da Murteira near Loures, and a rent of 3 920 réis for the houses of Boa Vista paid by D. Violante Eugénia de Castro.

Will (extract) in which Catarina Brandão leaves to her daughter D. Valentina Henriques a property (quinta) in Arrentela and the Casal da Murteira, with the obligation to fulfil 100 masses for her soul at the chapel of Espírito Santo, at the church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo de Lisboa, where her aunt Francisca Brandão is buried. Catarina Brandão also gives to her eldest daughter D. Ana Henriques the houses in Praia and the rents paid by Ambrósio Pereira de Berredo and D. Violante de Castro, Nuno Álvares Pereira’s wife, with the condition of not dividing the properties and fulfilling a set of perpetual masses, which are listed.