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Deed of sale

Deed of sale of an estate in the district of Vila Chã to Francisco Pereira da Silva.

Followed by the possession deed (1652-08-12, fls. 180v-181).

Silva, Francisco Pereira (flor.1652-1656)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed by which Cosme de Castro changed some clauses of the entail foundation deed, because it was necessary to detach from the entail the assets of Capitão Domingos Sarilho, Francisca da Cruz's first husband. Cosme de Castro also asked his grandson to build a chapel devoted to S. António in the church of São Salvador of Ladário, determining that the chapel that was supposed to be build in Povolide should not be constructed.
Belchior de Castro and Maria da Cunha Cerqueira gave their approval to this deed and attached to the entail their farmstead in Ladário.

Castro, Cosme de (flor.1638-1642)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed made by Jorge Caldeira Tavares in which he disposed and ordered the foundation of two more entails composed of rural properties and estates in Portalegre's outskirts. To administrate the second entail he named his son Pedro Tavares de Mesquita and to administrate the third entail he named his son Miguel de Tavares. Both entails would have the exactly the same conditions and succession clauses of the first entail he founded in his will, which was administrated by his son Diogo Caldeira, except for the perpetual pious obligations, that he withdrew from those new entails.

Tavares, Jorge Caldeira de (d.1609)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed by Luís Pinheiro, adding conditions to the succession in the chapel he had instituted.

Pinheiro, Luís (d.1634)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed by Luís Álvares de Madureira and Joana de Madureira, adding some clauses to regulate the entail previously instituted. They established that the properties of the entail could not be given as dowry, nor used to ransom captives. The parents had the right to disinherit the presumptive heir of the entail if he married without their consent, unless the marriage was with a person of honorable lineage. Furthermore, the administrators of the entail were compelled to live in the city of Porto or in its 'termo', unless their service to the king obliged them to live elsewhere. They also required the heir to entail his reserved portion, his inheritance and that of his siters who became nuns, arguing that the monasteries where they lived should abdicate from the estates, since they belonged to the institutors' grandparents and ancestors, and should therefore be included in the entail.

Madureira, Luís Álvares de (flor.1541-1560)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed made by Jorge Caldeira Tavares in which he disposed and ordered the foundation of two more entails composed of rural properties and estates in Portalegre's outskirts. To administrate the second entail he named his son Pedro Tavares de Mesquita and to administrate the third entail he named his son Miguel de Tavares. Both entails would have the exactly the same conditions and succession clauses of the first entail he founded in his will, which was administrated by his son Diogo Caldeira, except for the perpetual pious obligations, that he withdrew from those new entails.

Tavares, Jorge Caldeira de (d.1609)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed by Rodrigo Pereira de Castro, written in Castilian, annexing some of his own properties to the entail founded by Álvaro Afonso and Grimaneza Pereira and appointing his son, D. Gonçalo Pereira de Araújo and his descendents as the entail successors. The testator also declares some clauses and conditions regarding the entail's succession and administration.

Castro, Rodrigo Pereira de (flor.1563-1602)

Declaration deed

Declaration deed through which Alexandre Barroso Pereira and Catarina Palau de Cardenes stated that they had previously issued a chapel foundation deed, having decided subsequently to name it an entail instead of chapel and adding more succession clauses. They demanded that all the future administrators should incorporate half of a third of their assets in the entail.

Pereira, Alexandre Barroso (flor.1667)

Contract and bond deed

Contract and bond deed by which Francisco da Fonseca and his wife Maria Salvado, the institutor's daughter, contracted with the priests of the Church of São Tomé to build a chapel following the institutor's will. They should be its first administrators and their heirs should succeed in this entail. If they did not nominate one of the children, it should succeed the eldest son, or daughter. This entail is composed of a farm in Vale Escuro, with its houses, and fruit trees located on the outskirts of Lisboa.

Fonseca, Francisco da (flor.1653-1674)

Confirmation letter

Confirmation letter to Pedro Álvares de Abreu de Sousa confirming the entail founded by his parents António de Abreu de Sousa and D. Isabel and the entail's conditions presented by him. The king granted the confirmation letter after Provedor of comarca made the ordered inquiries to confirm Pedro Álvares de Abreu de Sousa's declarations.

Sousa, Pedro Álvares de Abreu de (flor.1616-1622)

Confirmation letter

Confirmation letter by Mem da Costa Saraiva of the entail founded by his parents, Pedro Saraiva da Costa and Ana Frajoa da Costa, and clauses' declaration. Her mother was present and consented in this confirmation and presented clauses. This is a second document, since the first one was forged by Manuel da Costa Saraiva, brother of Pedro Saraiva da Costa, changing the clause which excluded him and his descendants from the entail's succession.

Saraiva, Mem da Costa (flor.1627-1630)

Codicil (extract)

Codicil (extract) by which António Gomes Pessoa confirms the clauses of his previous will and codicil and forbids anyone who commits crimes of lese-majeste to possess his entail.
Followed by undated list of the properties of the entail, which consist of a public debt instrument and properties in Lisboa and Sacavém, made at the time when the administrator was D. Luísa Antónia Corte-Real, as tutor of her husband, Francisco de Melo de Carvalho.

Pessoa, António Gomes (flor.1664)

Codicil (extract)

Codicil (extract) by which Maria Pereira, António Gonçalves' widow, bequeathed houses in Lisboa to her daughter, Francisca Maria Pereira, Manuel Gomes da Fonseca's wife, obligating her and her successors to support the celebration of 60 annual masses for her soul in the church of S. Pedro of Alfama. After her daughter's death, the entailed houses would be transmitted to a son or daughter of her choice. If she failed to appoint a successor before dying, the entail would be inherited by her eldest son.

Pereira, Maria (flor.1688)

Codicil

Codicil by which Cristóvão de Brito, D. Beatriz de Ataíde's husband, member of the Conselho do Rei, establishes an entail with public debt instruments and a farmstead (quinta) in Ribatejo, appointing João de Brito, his nephew, to be its first administrator. The latter and his descendants are obligated to support the celebration of annual masses for the soul of the institutor in the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Assunção of the church of the monastery of Madre de Deus of Lisboa and to maintain alight a lamp inside it. Followed by an approval deed issued on 1560-03-25 and an opening deed issued on 1561-08-09.

Brito, Cristóvão de (flor.1560)

Codicil

Codicil of D. Maria Rebelo, adding and changing clauses to her previous codicil. She appoints Aires de Miranda Henriques, her nephew, as first administrator of her entail, and his successors afterwards. If he dies before her, the entail shall be inherited by his brother, Fernando de Miranda Henriques. She also lists the pieces she donates to her chapel.

Rebelo, Maria (d.1599)

Codicil

Codicil made by Ana de Almeida in which she confirmed her will but made clear that their relatives could only succeed in the case that her son and daughters had no descendants of their own. She also included a clause regarding the immediate exclusion of any administrator who committed crimes of lese-majeste.

Almeida, Ana de (d.1696)

Codicil

Codicil by which João de Resende, expresses his wish to be transported after his death to his chapel in the chapterhouse of the convent of Santo António dos Olivais, Coimbra. He confirms the dispositions of the will made before his departure to Madrid, in which he had designated his niece, D. Joana de Sá de Miranda Resende, daughter of his sister D. Jerónima Corte Real, as her universal heir and administrator of his entail. He lists the clauses of succession of the entail founded by his brother, Pedro Homem de Resende, and orders a copy of its institution to be given to the priests of Santo António dos Olivais. He declares his niece heir of his brother's entail as well as of his own.
Followed by an addition dated 1643-10-31, by the approval deed of the codicil, and by a note referring it was translated from the Portuguese by D. Francisco Gracian Berruguete, secretário da interpretação de línguas.

Resende, João de (d.1643)

Codicil

Codicil by which Rodrigo Homem, changes the invocation of the chapel ordered in his will from S. Gens to S. José, and adds four more masses to its obligations, in a total of eight. He revokes the clause which established that, if his brother and heir had no successors, the administration would pass to the Misericórdia of Ourém, declaring that it will pass instead to their closest relative. He declares that Vidal Homem, João Pereira's eldest son, will inherit the entail after his father's death. If he has no successors, it will pass to one of his siblings, with the exception of Nuno Rodrigues, who will not inherit it in spite of being older.

Homem, Rodrigo (d.1628)

Codicil

Codicil by which João de Resende, expresses his wish to be transported after his death to his chapel in the chapterhouse of the convent of Santo António dos Olivais, Coimbra. He confirms the dispositions of the will made before his departure to Madrid, in which he had designated his niece, D. Joana de Sá de Miranda Resende, daughter of his sister D. Jerónima Corte Real, as her universal heir and administrator of his entail. He lists the clauses of succession of the entail founded by his brother, Pedro Homem de Resende, and orders a copy of its institution to be given to the priests of Santo António dos Olivais. He declares his niece heir of his brother's entail as well as of his own.
Followed by an addition dated 1643-10-31, by the approval deed of the codicil, and by a note referring it was translated from the Portuguese by D. Francisco Gracian Berruguete, secretário da interpretação de línguas.

Resende, João de (d.1643)

Chapel foundation deed 

Chapel foundation deed by which João Lopes Figueira and João de Gusmão, fidalgos da Casa do Rei, as executors of André da Silva's will, appoint Vicente Figueira d'Altero, João Lopes Figueira's son, as administrator and heir of the chapel established by André da Silva and his wife, Joana de Sequeira, in the convent of S. Francisco of Lisboa. The document mentions André da Silva's will, by which he ordered that his properties should be bequeathed to his wife, during her lifetime, and that after her death they would be entailed and bequeathed to a person chosen by João Lopes Figueira and João de Gusmão, and to this person's successors thereafter, with the obligation of one annual mass for their souls.

Altero, Vicente Figueira de (flor.1599)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Genoveva Pereira da Cunha, António Ribeiro Pereira, Vicente Pereira de Castro and D. Leonor Soutomaior. Fulfilling the will of Doutor Nicolau Pereira de Castro, son of Genoveva Pereira da Cunha, she established a chapel with a third of his assets and of his son, to fulfill the charges, celebrated in the church of Nossa Senhora da Salvação in Arruda dos Vinhos. It also encloses the assets left by priest Manuel Pereira, her son, before his profession. According to the same will, he appoints Vicente Pereira de Castro, first administrator. The succession was to be that set forth in the Kingdom Ordinances. Priest António Ribeiro Pereira would also entail, on his death, his property to the aforementioned chapel. Vicente Pereira de Castro and D. Leonor Soutomaior, his wife, also attach a third of their property, namely the Nossa Senhora da Luz' farm, in Vinha, on the outskirts of Arruda dos Vinhos, to the chapel.

Cunha, Genoveva Pereira da (flor.1658)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Diogo Saraiva and his wife Isabel Mendes incorporated several properties and rents of cereal, wine, chestnuts and olive oil, in order to fulfill the chapel's obligations. They wanted to build, at their own expense, the chancel of the hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Penelas, on the outskirts of Lamego. The administrators would be obligated to maintain the hermitage and to ensure the cult. They designated their son, Doutor Domingos Saraiva, to be its first administrator and to be responsible for choosing between one of his brothers, or between one of his nephews, the sucessor of this entail.

Saraiva, Diogo (flor.1618)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by António de São Dionísio, bishop of the island of Santiago, in Cape Verde. The bishop declares that he has built a chapel under the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Piedade in the farmstead of Santo André de Marecos, in the Bishopric of Porto, leaving a retable with the image of the Virgin to be placed in the said chapel, where perpetual daily Masses would be celebrated for the soul of the founder. António de São Dionísio leaves 4.000 cruzados to be used to buy estates or interest rates to be entailed to the chapel. The first administrator would be his nephew, Manuel de Sousa Loureiro, to whom the institutor leaves the power to appoint one of his children as successor. After that, the succession would go primarily to the first-born sons. The successor should always be an Old Christian. The institutor also requestes that the bishops of Porto and the "provedores das capelas" to register the institution in their records and to surveil the fulfilment of his wishes.

Dionísio, António de São (flor.1684)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Manuel Rodrigues, appointing two lines and 'genders' of administrators: one following the line of his mother, represented by his niece Benta Rodrigues, followed by her son Manuel; and the other should follow his father's line, represented by his brother Álvaro Rodrigues, followed by his daughter Maria. Both administrators should also support the pious obligations of the entail, notably a weekly mass celebrated every friday, along with 900 reis to the 'fábrica' of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição.

Rodrigues, Manuel (flor.1697)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Manuel Ribeiro ordering the celebration of masses in the chapel he previously founded with his late wife, Maria Antunes, in Misericórdia of Viana do Castelo and annexing more assets, bought by him after his wife's death, to the first chapel they founded. He appoints as first administrators of his chapel his nephew and niece, licenciado Baltasar Barbosa de Araújo and Catarina Ribeiro Maciel, his wife. If they do not have offspring when Catarina Ribeiro dies, Baltasar Barbosa de Araújo will enjoy the chapel's income in his life and, after his death, this chapel will be annexed to the chapel founded by Manuel Ribeiro and Maria Antunes, currently administrated by licenciado Gaspar Portes Ribeiro and Isabel Barbosa de Aguilar, his wife.
Chapel foundation deed approved in 1642-06-15 and opened in 1651-07-05.

Ribeiro, Manuel (d.1651)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Manuel Garcia de Bívar established an entail, appointing his eldest son Duarte Garcia Bívar to be its first administrator. He has due to order the celebration of masses in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Graça, in Lisboa. The successors are obligated to incorporate the third part of their third to this chapel. This entail is composed of a public debt instrument of 55 187 réis in Tábula Real da Vila de Setúbal and houses located in Lisboa.

Bívar, Manuel Garcia de (flor.1656-1681)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which the priest Luís Ferreira established an entail, designating his third-degree niece Catarina dos Santos, daughter of João Tomé and Maria Esteves, to be its first administrator. She was due to order the celebration of masses wherever she wanted and she, and the future administrators, were obligated to incorporate their third into this entail. If she died without heirs, it should succeed her sister Mariana de Jesus and her heirs. This entail is composed of land, vineyards, olive groves, olive press and mill in the parish of São Pedro de Dois Portos, on the outskirts of Torres Vedras, and also two houses located in Lisboa. The successors could not sell the houses but they could subrogate it, and this provision was also confirmed in this document by João Tomé and Maria Esteves, the houses' possessors.

Ferreira, Luís (flor.1661-1662)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by António de Almeida and Francisca das Neves, in Condeixa-a-Nova. They entailed assets to fulfill charges, celebrated at the altar of the chapel of the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora da Lapa and appoint António de Moura Coutinho, their nephew, as administrator of the chapel, to whom his eldest son should succeed. If the lineage was extinguished, the last administrator had to nominate the successor he considered suitable.

Almeida, António de (flor.1657)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed in which Gonçalo Rodrigues Marques declares that he has bought the chapel of "Cabeça Santa", in the convent of S. Elói, in Porto, with the intention of establishing his own chapel. To achieve this, he changed the chapel's invocation to St. Gonçalo, the Saint he was named after, and ordered his remains buried there. The institutor entailed 110,000 reis of interest in the Almoxarifado of Porto. He appointed his son António Rodrigues Marques, almoxarife of the comarca of Porto, as the first administrator. The entail was to be inherited by the first-born male son.

Marques, Gonçalo Rodrigo (flor.1662)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of the chapel of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, in Aldeia de Cima, Armamar, by Domingos Cardoso da Fonseca, who wished to be buried there. He entails most of his movable and immovable property to fulfill charges, reserving only a few, worth 1 500 cruzados, for the fulfilment of his will. He declares he would appoint the first administrator in his will, but if he did not, the administration would pass to Manuel Cardoso Madeira, his legitimate son, and then to his eldest son.

Fonseca, Domingos Cardoso da (flor.1679-1681)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Belchior Correia and Violante Gonçalves, his wife, entail an orchard with the obligation of 12 000 reis of masses in the convent of of São Francisco of Lisboa and appoint Pedro Correia, their son, as its first administrator.

Correia, Belchior (flor.1615)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Jerónimo de Araújo Peixoto, abbot of the Castelo de Penalva's church, instituted a chapel, invoking Nossa Senhora da Guia, in Quinta do Salgueiral. He entailed the aforementioned farm to fulfill the charges. It was up to the administrator to appoint the successor. If he didn't nominate anyone, the administration should be left to Catarina de Araújo Peixoto, his sister. In lack of an administrator, the administration would be left to the Misericórdia de Penalva.

Peixoto, Jerónimo de Araújo (flor.1650)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Manuel Ribeiro ordering the celebration of masses in the chapel he previously founded with his late wife, Maria Antunes, in Misericórdia of Viana do Castelo and annexing more assets, bought by him after his wife's death, to the first chapel they founded. He appoints as first administrators of his chapel his nephew and niece, licenciado Baltasar Barbosa de Araújo and Catarina Ribeiro Maciel, his wife. If they do not have offspring when Catarina Ribeiro dies, Baltasar Barbosa de Araújo will enjoy the chapel's income in his life and, after his death, this chapel will be annexed to the chapel founded by Manuel Ribeiro and Maria Antunes, currently administrated by licenciado Gaspar Portes Ribeiro and Isabel Barbosa de Aguilar, his wife.
Chapel foundation deed approved in 1642-06-15 and opened in 1651-07-05.

Ribeiro, Manuel (d.1651)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by António Baltasar. His estates were entailed to a chapel previously built in Cortegaça, in Santa Maria do Pinheiro, dedicated to Bom Jesus. As administrator, António appointed his nephew João Ribeiro, with the obligation of celebrating a weekly mass and other three masses in Christmas for the souls of the institutor and his wife's.

Baltasar, António (flor.1679)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, established by Luís Dias Manuel. He entails assets for the fulfillment of charges, celebrated at the altar of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, in the mother church of Sarzedas. Appoints the Condes of Sarzedas as administrators of the chapel.

Manuel, Luís Dias (flor.1661)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Salvador Gonçalves, moedeiro, and his wife, Inês Alves, establish a chapel with the invocation of Nossa Senhora do Rosário in the church of Santo Adrião da Póvoa, where they wish to be buried. They entail their properties, namely houses and farmlands in Póvoa de Santo Adrião, with an obligation of an annual mass on the day of Nossa Senhora do Rosário and other holidays of the Virgin. They appoint their niece, Inês Rodrigues, daughter of António Rodrigues and Beatriz Alves, sister of Inês Alves, as first administrator, and her successors afterwards. They also bequeath to their nephew, Bernardo Vaz, and to his successors, a vineyard which Salvador Gonçalves had inherited from his father, Gonçalo Pires, with an obligation of an annual mass in their chapel.

Gonçalves, Salvador (flor.1585)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Doctor João de Coimbra, provisor in the Archbishopric of Braga. The founder declares that he had previously received permission from the King to acquire property to be incorporated into a chapel he had built in honour of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, next to the church of São João do Souto in Braga. His nephew, Cristóvão de Coimbra, would be the first owner and administrator of the chapel, to be succeeded by his first-born son, with the exception of clerics, illegitimate children and those who had committed lese-majeste crimes. The estates could not be leased to "fidalgos", "cavaleiros" or "oficiais do rei", but only to farmers and labourers. Every year, during the mass of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, the chaplain would read the deed of foundation to keep the memory of the founder alive.

Coimbra, João de (flor.1527-1530)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Estêvão Ferreira da Gama, fidalgo da Casa do Rei, and D. Mécia Pereira, his wife, entail their properties in Lisboa, Sintra, Cascais, Torres Vedras, Lourinhã, Atouguia and Óbidos. They establish an obligation of a daily mass in the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Egito of the convent of S. Francisco de Xabregas, Lisboa. They appoint their daughter, Violante Pereira, as administrator, and her successors afterwards.

Gama, Estêvão Ferreira da (flor.1556)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of Manuel Gonçalves Moreira, which he had done in the church of the monastery of Santo António of Viana [do Castelo] and where he wanted to be buried. He entails his houses, located in Viana do Castelo, on Rua de Santa Catarina, for the celebration of the charges. The administrator must be the eldest, legitimate son. In case of non-fulfillment of the charges, the administration would transfer to Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Viana.

Moreira, Manuel Gonçalves (flor.1616)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed, by which Isabel Rodrigues Zarco, widow of Francisco de Freitas da Cunha, establishes a chapel, dedicated to the Santíssimo Sacramento, in the mother church of Portimão, entailing various assets, to fulfill the charges and transferring the charges that her husband to it had ordered in the monastery of São Francisco.

Zarco, Isabel Rodrigues (flor.1605)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of Belchior Correia and Violante Gonçalves, his wife, in which they entail assets for the fulfillment of charges, celebrated in the monastery of São Francisco of Lisboa and appoint Pedro Correia, their son, as its first administrator.

Correia, Belchior (flor.1615)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of Feliciana Ribeiro and Maria do Avelar, her sister. They entail several houses, located in Évora, opposite the convent of São Francisco, to fulfill the charges, celebrated in the church of that monastery. The administration belonged to Feliciana Ribeiro, after her death to Maria do Avelar, and then to her children, namely her eldest daughter.

Avelar, Maria do (flor.1610-1614)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Henrique Homem established an entail, incorporating several properties located in Vila Meã and Oliveira do Conde, and donated them to his nephew Henrique Simões Homem, son of his niece Bárbara Botelho and her husband Pedro Simões, reserving the usufruct during his lifetime.

Homem, Henrique (flor.1637)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of António Pires and Beatriz Gonçalves, his wife. Beatriz Gonçalves entails several assets, including her farmstead in Lisboa, with an obligation of annual masses in the altar of Nossa Senhora da Piedade of the monastery of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Lisbon. António Pires undertakes to also entail a third of his assets. They appoint Pedro Rebelo, son of António Pires, as first administrator, and his descendants afterwards.

Pires, António (flor.1587)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by Gonçalo Barbosa. The institutor had previously built a chapel dedicated to São Gonçlo, which was located in Santa Maria de Ardegão, next to the house where he was born. Gonçalo Barbosa entailed all his possessions and established the rules of the institution: the succession would be by legitimate descent, appointing the son or daughter who was considered the most obedient and capable of managing the estates. The appointment of the second administrator and successor was postponed to the time when the founder was to make his will. In the absence of relatives, the administration was to go to the S. Marcos Hospital in Braga. In the same document, his nephew, Domingos Barbosa, priest of São Julião dos Passos, also entailed to the chapel the property he had inherited from his cousin, João Barbosa, of the church of São Salvador das Almas de Vilar.

Barbosa, Gonçalo (flor.1682)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which D. Isabel de Castilho, widow of João Bernardes, escrivão dos Armazéns dos mantimentos de Lisboa, instituted a chapel, entailing to it the third part of his assets, which included a farmstead located near the Chafariz do Andaluz. The revenues of the entailed assets would support the celebration of a perpetual daily mass and another one prayed, every year, in All Saints' Day in the convent of S. Bento da Saúde of Lisboa, where her body would be buried. She appointed her brother, João Batista Santa Cruz, to administrate the chapel, allowing him to designate one of his children to succeed him. If he died without leaving descendants, the entail would be transmitted to the closest living relative or to a benefactor. The institutor declared that she had chosen her brother to administrate it because her only son had married against her will. Contains a copy of a petition and a licence.

Castilho, Isabel de (flor.1630)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed of the chapel of Santo Alberto, instituted by Manuel Rodrigues de Abreu, in the church of the College of Nossa Senhora do Carmo of Coimbra. The chapel was purchased for 80 000 réis and destined for the institutor's tomb. He entails assets to fulfill the charges and decides to bind it in the form of a entail, to be administered by an administrator who fulfills the charges. He also undertook to decorate the chapel and appointed the licenciado Manuel de Aguiar da Fonseca as the first administrator to be succeeded by D. Luísa Pereira Pantoja, his wife, and after his death, Manuel de Aguiar Pereira, their grandson. If the descendants were missing, the administration would transfer to the College.
It contains the license granted by Frei Luís de Miranda, provincial of the Order of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, to institution the chapel (dated 1664-12-17).

Abreu, Manuel Rodrigues de (flor.1665)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by João Dias Leite, by which he decided to institute a chapel in the newly built church of Santa Cruz. He appointed his nephew Teodoro Leite as administrator. He and all the administrators had several obligations, namely to be members of the Brotherhood of Santa Cruz and to use the family coat of arms. Succession would pass primarily through first-born sons, excluding illegitimate children. A copy of the deed of foundation was to be inserted in the Livro das Capelas and another in the archives of the Brotherhood of Santa Cruz.

Leite, João Dias (flor.1640)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which capitão Miguel Luís Peleja and his wife, Domingas Nunes, revoke the previous contracts they had made with the Irmandade do Espírito Santo of the hermitage of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios de Alfama, dated 1667-04-14, 1669-03-14 and 1669-10-26. They establish a daily mass for their souls in the altar of Jesus of that hermitage, to which they entail their properties, including houses in Alfama which already had other obligations of masses to the church of S. Miguel de Alfama. They designate capitão Rafael Nunes da Silveira, nephew of Domingas Nunes, as first administrator, with capacity of appointing the next one. If he doesn't appoint a successor, he shall be succeded by his bastard daughter, D. Mariana, and her descendants. If her lineage is extinguished, the entail shall pass to the Irmandade do Espírito Santo. They designate António Borges, son of Francisco Borges, as their first chaplain.

Peleja, Miguel Luís (flor.1670-1671)

Chapel foundation deed

Chapel foundation deed by which Domingos Nunes and Ana Maria Rodarte, his wife, entail the third part of their assets, including houses in Lisboa and 30 silver vases, with the purpose of supporting the celebration of a daily perpetual mass for their souls in the church of Santa Maria Madalena of Lisboa, where their bodies and those of their successors would be buried. They designate their grandson, Doutor João Coelho Rodarte, Catarina Rodarte's son, to become the chapel's first administrator, determining that he should transmit it to his eldest son at the time of his death.

Nunes, Domingos (flor.1667-1673)

Chapel and entail foundation and declaration deed

Chapel and entail foundation and declaration deed by licenciado António de Oliveira, changing some clauses from the foundation of his and his uncle's, Domingos Gomes, entail and chapel, located in the monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra. Among them, he changes the entail's head to their graves, located in the chapel of Santo André, in the same monastery. In the end, it describes all the entailed assets.

Oliveira, António de (d.1625)

Approval and declaration deed

Approval and declaration deed of the will by padre Manuel Dias Maninho in which he confirmed his will and the foundation of the entail, and disposed that any administrator convicted in crimes of lese-majesty crimes should be deprived from the administration 24 hours before the crime was commited, when the administration would be transmitted to the next successor in line.

Maninho, Manuel Dias (d.1680)

Annexation deed

Annexation deed by Maria de Moura, widow, entailing all her assets to a chapel previously institued, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Natividade and to the souls of the Purgatory, in the church of S. João de Luzim. Maria appointed her nephew, Manuel de Sousa Camps, as the first administrator. The successors should primarly be the first-born sons, excluding clerics and those who commited lese-majeste crimes.

Moura, Maria de (flor.1662)

Annexation deed

Annexation deed by which Cristóvão Mendes de Eça and his wife, D. Filipa de Gouveia, entailed lands in Carvalhal and in Tondela to the entail established by Francisco Mendes Cardoso and Isabel Pais de Barros in substitution of houses and vineyards in Guarda which had belonged to it. Isabel Pais de Barros confirmed the entail foundation deed's clauses and declared that if any administrator of the entail committed a crime of lèse-majesté, he would loose the right to administrate it 3 days before doing so.

Eça, Cristóvão Mendes de (flor.1649-1682)

Annexation deed

Annexation deed by which Gonçalo Coelho, attaches several assets to the entail of which he was administrator. Manuel Luís Paiva and Antónia Alves, his wife, appointed successors to the administration, also entail, for their part, some assets to the entail, committing themselves to the fulfillment of the institution.

Coelho, Gonçalo (flor.1649-1664)

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