Court proceedings made on the cause that was presented by D. Maria da Silva de Almeida, plaintiff, before the Juiz dos Órfãos de Lisboa, Francisco Ferreira Encerrabodes regarding the succession on the administration of the entail and chapel founded by D. Luís de Almeida de Vasconcelos, with entailed propertis in the islands São Tomé and Ano Bom, against Martinho Afonso de Melo, minor and defendant, who was accused of having usurped the entail's administration. The plaintiff would proof, among other articles, that she was entitled to the entail's administration based on several clauses of the foundation deed, specially one that privileged the legitimate sons or daughters before the natural, legitimized sons.

[Includes a termo de curadoria on behalf of the defendant, Martinho Afonso de Melo]

Court sentence issued by the Juiz dos Órfãos de Lisboa, Francisco Ferreira Encerrabodes, condemning the defendant Martinho Afonso de Melo to relinquish and give the administration of the entail and chapel founded by Luís de Almeida de Vasconcelos to the plaintiff, D. Maria da Silva de Almeida, alongside with all the entailed properties and the revenue derived from them, from the time he unlawfully entered on the administration to the present, he was also sentenced to pay for the costs of the process. The sentence was issued based on the papers presented by both parties involved, but specially on the fact that Martinho Afonso de Melo was a natural and legitimized son of Martinho Afonso de Melo, who died while the last administrator, D. Luísa da Silva, was still alive. Therefore, D. Maria da Silva, aunt of the defendant, as legitimate daughter, should have the preference on the succession.

Dispatch issued by the Juiz dos Órfãos de Lisboa, Francisco Ferreira Encerrabodes, on the court proceedings regarding the succession on the administration of the entail and chapel founded by D. Luís de Almeida de Vasconcelos, ordering that the plaintiff, D. Maria da Silva and the defendant Martinho Afonso de Melo, included the papers that proved their statements.

Letter of possession issued by the Escrivão da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Lisboa declaring that he had given possession of the chapel of Espírito Santo, founded by Simoa Godinha and her husband Luís de Almeida, to D. Maria da Silva, represented by an attorney, to whom the administration rightfully belonged, due to a sentence that she obtained from the Casa da Suplicação against her nephew Martinho Afonso Coelho.

Documents produced by the entail.

Royal sentence issued by Casa da Suplicação, declining the appeal made on behalf of the minor Martinho Afonso de Melo, defendant and appellant, against a sentence issued by the Juiz dos Órfãos de Lisboa, Francisco Ferreira Encerrabodes on the cause that opposed him, defendand and D. Maria da Silva de Almeida, plaintiff, regarding the succession on the administration of the entail and chapel of Espírito Santo, in the church of the Misericórdia de Lisboa, founded by Luís de Almeida e Vasconcelos. The Casa de Suplicação condemned the minor Martinho Afonso de Melo and his tutors to pay for the costs of the process and deliver the administration of the entail and of the entailed properties with all of it's derived income to D. Maria da Silva.

[includes several documents, including sentences, statement of oath, termo de curador, extracts of the will and a termo de atempação].

Will (extract) by which Luís de Almeida de Vasconcelos orders, among other dispositions, the foundation of a chapel in the Igreja da Misericórdia de Lisboa, dedicated to Espírito Santo, entailing to it a sugar-mill, named Laranjeiras, and two farmsteads, named Barra Funda and Boa Vista, in the island of São Tomé, and the donatary captaincy and Alcaidaria-Mor of the island of Ano Bom, with cotton farms and more than 250 african slaves. He appoints his cousin D. Maria de Almeida to be the first administrator, but only if his wife D. Simoa, had no children of his own. He orders that 20 000 cruzados should be given to the Misericórdia de Lisboa in order to pay for the ransom of portuguese captives in Africa.