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].