Court proceedings (partial) regarding who should administrate two entails, one of them instituted by Antão de Faria ("morgado de Palmela") and the other by Maria de Vilhena ("morgado de Évora").

Court sentence judging a lawsuit presented by D. Henrique Henriques and his wife, D. Maria Luísa Pereira de Meneses, against D. Inácia de Meneses and Francisco de Faria e Silva, concerning the succession of the entails established by Antão de Faria ("morgado de Palmela") and Maria de Vilhena ("morgado de Évora"). It is declared that Antão de Faria instituted an entail with houses on Portas de Alfôfa, Lisboa, to which his son, Francisco de Faria, and grandson, Antão de Faria, entailed two farmsteads ("quinta dos Olhos de Água" and "quinta do Carvalho"). The entail of Maria de Vilhena, established in 1562, was administrated by Sancho de Faria, great-grandfather of D. Maria Luísa, and subsequently by Francisco de Faria. The judges determined that D. Maria Luísa Pereira de Meneses was the rightful successor of both of the entails, being the legitimate granddaughter of Francisco de Faria and niece of Antão de Faria, Prior de Palmela, its last administrators. The defendant, D. Inácia, was obligated to give up the administration of the two entails and to cover the legal expenses.

Exemplification of a will chart made by Maria de Vilhena at the request of Frei Simão de Faria, frade da Ordem do Carmo, and of Sancho de Faria.

Exemplification of an exemplification of a will chart made by Maria de Vilhena at the request of Francisco de Faria, Alcaide-mor de Palmela, her nephew. It is preceded by a petition and an undated dispatch.

Documents produced by the entail.

Will chart by which D. Maria de Vilhena, Simão da Silveira's widow, established a chapel of 3 daily perpetual masses, which would be celebrated in the main chapel of the convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Évora. She appointed Jerónimo de Carvalho, her uncle, and Sancho de Faria, her nephew, to administrate it, leaving a public debt instrument of 100 000 réis and a rent (foro) of wheat taken from properties in Moura, Beja and Évora to support the pious obligations. The administrators had to erect a chapel in that convent, where a family mausoleum would be built. All the properties she left to her uncle and a public debt instrument of 14 000 given to Madalena Mendes, her ama, would end up being passed to Sancho de Faria and entailed to the chapel. The latter would leave all the entailed assets to his eldest son.
She left a public debt instrument of 100 000 réis to the Misericórdia of Évora, obligating its brothers to provide for poor men and to give dowries to orphan girls every year.
The institutor established another entail with the properties that she inherited after her parents' death, which her brother, Pedro de Tovar, held from her. She appointed her nephew, Sancho de Tovar, to administrate it and declared that it should be transmitted to his descendants. The testator determined that her body had to be buried in the convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, inside the grave of her late husband. Followed by an approval deed issued on 1562-10-23 and an undated and unapproved codicil.