Documents produced by the entail.

Chapel foundation deed by which Antónia Serrão de Nisa, acting on behalf of her sisters, Catarina Serrão and Mécia Serrão, established a chapel with their assets, which included houses and properties in Torres Novas and in Golegã. She appointed their niece, Leonor de Varela Serrão, who would marry Capitão João Serrão Pinheiro, to administrate it, determining that the entail would be passed to their eldest son. The future administrators of the entail were obligated to support the celebration of 40 annual masses for the institutors' souls in the church of S. Tiago of Torres Novas. Contains copy of a letter of attorney.

Court sentence confirming the content of the nuncupative will made by Antónia Serrão, after the making of inquiries to its witnesses.

Court sentence by doutor Luís Manuel de Abreu, juiz de fora de Torres Novas, confirming the justification and sentence of approval of the nuncupative will made by Antónia Serrão, issued at the request of her sister, Mécia Serrão.
Contains a petition with a will, a dispatch, a termo de citação, testemonies and a court sentence.

Exemplification of a chapel foundation deed issued by António Ferreira Dinis, escrivão da Provedoria de Santarém.

Exemplification of a will chart issued by António Ferreira Dinis, escrivão da Provedoria de Santarém.

Petition by which Mécia Serrão requests the confirmation of the nuncupative will of her sister, Antónia Serrão.
Followed by a dispatch.

Will by which Antónia Serrão designates her sister, Mécia Serrão, as her universal heir and executor, bequeathing her all of her properties as a chapel with an obligation of 50 annual masses for her soul in the church of S. Tiago of Torres Novas. After her sister's death, the entail will be administered by her other sister, Maria Serrão, and afterwards by her granddaughter, Timótea, and her descendants.

Will chart by which Mécia Serrão entailed all her free estate and a public debt instrument of 50 000 réis to the chapel she and her sisters, Antónia Serrão de Nisa and Catarina Serrão, established. She determined that after the death of Maria Serrão, her sister, the entail would be administrated by Timótea, João Serrão Pinheiro and Leonor Varela's daughter. If she left no descendants, it would be passed to her brother, Basílio. The testator declares that the future administrators of the entail had to celebrate 100 annual masses for the institutors' souls in the church of S. Tiago of Torres Novas. Her body would be buried in the church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, inside her parents' grave. Followed by an approval deed issued on 1678-12-12.