Documents produced by the entail.

Court sentence authorizing Henrique de Melo, administrator of the chapel established by D. Catarina de Paiva, his stepmother, to move the masses she had ordered in her will to the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade of the convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Lisboa, since they couldn't be prayed in the hermitage she had built in her leased lands.
Preceded by petition and dispatch.

Will by which D. Catarina de Paiva expresses her wish to be buried in the convent of S. Francisco of Lisboa. As she is about to give birth, she designates her future son or daughter as her heir. If she dies without successors, she designates her husband, Manuel de Melo, and his descendants, instead. She orders the completion of the hermitage she is building in her farmstead in Rendide, Torres Vedras, which is leased to the monastery of Alcobaça, and the institution of a weekly mass in it. If her descendants lose possession of the lease, or if this institution isn't allowed, the masses shall, instead, be prayed in the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade of the monastery of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Lisboa. She entails to this obligation her quinta do Pendão, also in Torres Vedras.
Followed by approval deed, dated 1578-07-05.