Documents produced by the entail.

Certificate of a will (extract) of Catarina de Freitas, issued by António Correia da Silva, escrivão da Provedoria das Capelas, Hospitais, Confrarias, Albergarias, Depósitos, Apelações e Agravos, at the request of Francisco de Avelar Velho. The will was presented by Fernando de Mesquita Albernês.

Will (extract) by which Agostinho de Couto Velho left the third part of his assets to his wife, Catarina de Freitas, determining that after her death it would be transmitted to their daughter, Helena. She and her successors would be obligated to support the celebration of a weekly perpetual mass for his soul. If Catarina remarried, the entail had to pass directly to Helena.

Will (extract) by which Catarina de Freitas designated her husband, Francisco de Avelar Velho, Aposentador-mor da Corte, to be her universal heir and executor of her will. She declared that she owned houses on Rua da Portuguesa, Vale das Chagas, which her previous husband, Agostinho de Couto Velho, had entailed to a chapel of perpetual masses celebrated in the church of Nossa Senhora do Loreto. The houses had to be transmitted with the pious obligation which was linked to them. The will was opened in 1670-12-20.