Will (extract) by which João Fernandes designated Constança Domingues, his wife, to execute his will and to inherit all his properties and moveable assets, on the condition that she did not remarry. If she did so, the assets would be delivered to the vicar of the church of Santa Cruz of Lisboa, who would have the responsibility of maintaining a chaplain singing perpetual daily masses over his grave. If his wife did not remarry, she would administrate the properties with the obligation of supporting the celebration of daily perpetual masses for her husband's soul. Before her death, Constança could leave the entail to whomever she wished.

Will of Constança Domingues founding a chapel in the church of Santa Cruz in Lisboa, where she will be buried next to her husband. The chapel will have a chaplain who will celebrate the masses for her and for her late husband. She appoints her sister Catarina Domingues for the chapel's administration and Vasco Martins, tabelião, for executor. They will appoint to succeed Catarina Domingues an idoneous member of the family.

Tombo of the chapel founded by João Primeiro and Constança Domingues in the church of Santa Cruz in Lisbon, which is administrated by the condessa da Sortelha.
Contains: will; acórdão em relação; sentence (sentença eclesiástica); acórdão em relação; administration letter on behalf of Nuno Martins da Silveira; confirmation letter on behalf of Nuno Martins da Silveira; land measurement deed; acórdão em relação.

Sentence acquiting the defendant, António da Silveira, of the accusation presented by the beneficiados of the church of Santa Cruz do Castelo de Lisboa, and ordering him to celebrate the daily mass of the chapel founded by Constança Domingues and her husband.

Royal charter ordering the judges of Casa do Cível de Lisboa to demand the presentation of documents concerning the farmstead (quinta) of Pipa from Diogo Álvares. Nuno Martins da Silveira, who had asked the King to issue the charter, was trying to obtain the administration of that farmstead and needed to gain access to the documents. He also wanted to avoid a dispute with the vicar and raçoeiros of the church of Santa Cruz of Lisboa.

Documents produced by the entail.

Exemplification of a will (extract) made by João Fernandes issued at the request of the vicar of the church of Santa Cruz of Lisboa.

Exemplification of a royal charter and an exemplification of a will (extract) issued at the request of Nuno Martins da Silveira.

Court sentence issued by Jorge Rodrigues, licenciado em Cânones, protonotário apostólico, desembargador e vigário-geral do arcebispado de Lisboa, finishing a conflict between the beneficiados of the church of Santa Cruz do Castelo de Lisboa, authors, and António da Silveira, defendant, fidalgo da Casa do Rei and administrator of the chapel of Constança Domingues. The authors claimed the defendant refused to pay the obligations of the chapel. The defendant claimed that he had paid all the obligations of the chapel, as had his great-grandfather, Nuno Martins da Silveira, who had received it from king D. João I, his grandfather, Diogo da Silveira, and his father, Henrique da Silveira, and that the authors didn't allow him to appoint the new chaplain. The defendant is acquited of the charges against him.
Contains copies of the sentence VINC001620 JFCD EA/003c and of the acordão em relação VINC001620 JFCD EA/003d.

Confirmation letter to Nuno Martins da Silveira of an administration letter granted by D. João I.

Chancery record of an administration letter to Nuno Martins da Silveira.

Chancery record of a confirmation letter to Nuno Martins da Silveira.

Administration letter to Nuno Martins da Silveira, for his lifetime and for all his descendants.

Acórdão em relação ordering the defendant Henrique da Silveira, administrator of the chapel, to maintain a chaplain in the church of Santa Cruz as it is ordered in the institutors' will and also in the administration letter given to his grandfather.

Acórdão em relação acquiting the condessa da Sortelha and her husband from the accusation presented by the Procurador da Coroa, declaring them as the legitimate administrators of the chapel. This chapel was given to Nuno Martins da Silveira and always administrated by his descendants until D. Álvaro da Silveira, the defendants' uncle; then succeeded his brother D. Luís da Silveira, conde da Silveira, father of the defendant. The defendant will put an inscription in the chapel and will make the tombo in three copies, one for the Provedoria, one for the Torre do Tombo and another one for the administrator.

Acórdão em relação, as an appeal of the previous sentence, ordering the defendant, António da Silveira, to celebrate the masses that are missing.