Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, revoking the clause of their will that excluded clerks of the administration of the entail, and adding, among other dispositions, that the administrator should bare the surname "Ávila" or otherwise lose the administration. They also entail 29 paintings of saints of their devotion to the entail, never to be dissipated of the other entailed properties.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a land Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a land Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a public debt instrument to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches disposing that if the Misericórdia assumed the administration, and Duarte Neimão rejected it, he could appoint, instead, some of his daughters to enter on S. Francisco's convent.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, revoking the clause of their will in which they forbade the sale of an entailed house and vineyard and allowing, otherwise, that it could be sold if the administrator petitioned the Provedor dos Resíduos to do so.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, disposing over the jewellery mentioned on their will, and that the administrator could only retain up to 230.000 réis in jewlery, selling the rest for the purchase of real estate properties.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a land Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a land in Santa Bárbara, Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding lands and other properties to the entail.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a land Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval and addition deed of the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches disposing over the occasional succession of the Misericórdia of Angra in the case of the extinction of the institutors bloodline, and that if that succeeded, the Misericórdia should not have three of the entailed estates names Quinta de S. Carlos, Quinta do Porto Santo and Quinta dos Moinhos. Those three estates should be entailed on behalf of their nephew licenciado Duarte Neimão Sanches, with all the same conditions that they have disposed on their will. However, Duarte Neimão Sanches would only receive the administration as long as he and his successores after him resided permanently in Angra.

Approval and addition deed to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, adding a estate in Fontainhas, Terceira island, to the entail.

Approval deed of the codicil made by João de Ávila in which he confirmed the foundation of the entail he founded with his first wife, Maria Borges Sanches.

Approval deed of a will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches confirming the will and all posterior changes and clauses they have made. They mention that a fraction of João de Ávila's reserved portion should be used to fulfill the will left by his sister D. Águeda da Cruz, who founded a chapel naming her niece D. Úrsula do Espírito Santo as administrator and the Confraria do Espírito Santo after her.

Approval deed of a will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches and of all the posterior addition deeds they have made.

Approval deed of a will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches and of all the posterior addition deeds they have made

Codicil made by João de Ávila in which he confirmed the foundation of the entail he founded with his first wife, Maria Borges Sanches. He also disposed that his second wife, D. Mónica Maria de Andrade could enjoy of all her share on his reserved portion during her lifetime, but at the time of her death this share should be entailed on the entail.

[Includes a will chart disposing over non-entailed properties made in 1676-05-06, fls. 72-75v]

Confirmation and reformation deed confirming to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, except on the clause that disposed that if the Misericórdia inherited, in anyway the administration it would have to marry an orphan girl every year, which clause they revoked.

Confirmation and reformation deed confirming to the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, except on the 52 clause that disposed over the properties to be inherited by the Misericórdia of Angra, ordering that all of them should come to Duarte Neimão Sanches if he accepted the administration of the entail. They stressed that it would only avange if their granddaughter Maria did no inherit the entail.

Declaration deed of the will made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches made after the death of their son Francisco Borges de Ávila, first administrator they have named for the entail, and naming, in his place, their granddaughter Maria, daughter of Francisco and Isabel Pereira Pamplona. Maria was then only 5 months old.

Dowry deed made by João de Ávila on behalf of his second wife D. Maria Mónica de Andrade, on the occasion of their marriage, in which he endowed her with mere 2.000 cruzados, once the rest of his assets were already entailed on behalf of his granddaughter Maria Pamplona de Ávila, who would receive them after her marriage with Manuel Paim de Sousa. However, he allowed D. Maria Mónica de Andrade to enjoy the revenue of the entailed properties during her lifetime.

Dowry deed made by João de Ávila on behalf of Manuel Paim de Sousa, on the occasion of his marriage with his granddaughter Maria Pamplona de Ávila, naming him administrator of the entail founded by him, doner, and his first wife D. Maria Borges Sanches, with the condition that Manuel Paim de Sousa would fulfill all the dispositions posed on the entail foundation deed.

Dowry deed made by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches on behalf of their son Francisco Borges de Ávila on the occasion of his marriage with Isabel Pereira Pamplona, in which they referred the foundation of the entail and the assets that would be entailed.

Exemplification of a codicil made by João de Ávila in which he confirmed the foundation of the entail he founded with his first wife Maria Borges Sanches.

[Includes a will chart disposing over non-entailed properties made in 1676-05-06, fls. 72-75v]

Inventory made by João de Ávila disposing and listing several properties and mentioning the foundation of the entail he founded with his first wife, Maria Borges Sanches, then administrated by his second wife D. Mónica Maria de Andrade. This inventory contains a description of the ledgers he had on his personal archive.

Petition signed by João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches asking the royal permission to entail all the assets they had in Azores, on behalf of their only child, Francisco Borges de Ávila, that would be the first administrator.

Royal provision on behalf of João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches allowing them to found an entail composed of all their assets.

Will of João de Ávila and Maria Borges Sanches, ordering, among several dispositions, the foundation of an entail, composed of all their real estate, money, gold, silver and jewellery, with a perpetual obligation of five masses celebrated in the convent of São Francisco, in Terceira island, for which they have obtained a royal provision. They named their minor son Francisco Borges de Ávila as first administrator, and his uncle padre João Álvares as his tutor and administrator during his minority. After the death of Francisco Borges de Ávila the administration should be transmitted to his eldest male son, or female on the absence of male, regulating the succession by this rule. The excluded clerks, illegitimate, mentally ill and offenders of lese-majesty from the administration of the entail. In case the bloodline was extinguished, the Misericórdia of Angra should have the administration with the condition of marrying an orphan girl every year.

Will chart made by João de Ávila in which he confirmed the foundation of the with his first wife Maria Borges Sanches, whose properties were administrated by his second wife D. Mónica Maria de Andrade during her lifetime.