Documents produced by the entail.

Will (extract) by which Mariana de Lencastre, Luís da Silva's widow, asked the executors of her will, her sons, to institute a daily mass for her soul and the soul of her husband, as it was ordered in his will, in the convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Lisboa, where their bodies would be buried. They should do so only if at the time of her death the partition of their father's patrimony was still unfinished and the widow was unable to employ the third part of her husband's assets to buy a rent. She ordered the executors to prevent that João Gomes da Silva, her eldest son, treated the property belonging to her dowry as an entail, since it should be used to fulfil the pious legacies and to support another daily mass for her soul in her chapel. She declared that her and her husband had previously established agreements with that convent and that him had also founded an entail. She asked the future administrator of her chapel to fulfil its pious obligations.