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This archival document comprises a composite set of late 16th- to early 17th-century Portuguese colonial administrative and judicial records, primarily concerning the contested succession, renunciation, and royal appointment to the *Viagem da Índia* and *Viagem da China*, with particular focus on the offices and entitlements associated with Dom Pedro de Faria (d. 1580), Dom Pedro de Castro, Dom Diogo de Faria, and Dom Diogo de Castro, Count of Monsanto and Linhares. The material includes petitions, royal warrants (*postillas*, *alvarás*), judicial records (*autos*, *sentenças*), notarial instruments (*apóvilas*, *fideicomissos*), chancery decrees, and marginal annotations originating from Lisbon, Goa, Macau, and Madrid, and bearing seals of the Arquivo Histórico Colonial, Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, and Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid. Key locations referenced are Lisbon, Goa, Macau, Diu, Safana, Damão, Mangalor, and the Momo River. Central themes include the legal validity of testamentary succession to royal maritime commissions, the procedural conditions for formal renunciation before royal courts or in India, the precedence of appointments under the *Ordenações Filipinas*, the fiscal administration of voyage-related revenues (*Fundo Dom Diogo de Farto*), and the jurisdictional interplay between the Casa da Índia, the Royal Council (*Conselho do Reino*), the Desembargadores do Paço, and the Viceroyalty of India. The documents collectively illuminate the mechanisms of Iberian imperial governance, hereditary office-holding, and colonial legal culture in the Estado da Índia between 1563 and 1634.
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This 17th-century Portuguese colonial administrative document, dated between 1606 and 1634, comprises a series of petitions, royal warrants (alvarás), notarial certifications, and archival annotations originating from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino and related repositories in Lisbon. It concerns Dom Pedro Mascarenhas, gentleman of His Majesty’s Household and heir to his uncle of the same name, who petitioned the Crown for confirmation and reissuance of a lost royal licence granted on 30 March 1606 authorising a voyage to China. The documentation further reveals that in 1606, a sum of 600,000 réis was allocated to representatives of Lisbon aboard a ship returning from China via Bandar Abbas, intended initially for Dom Pedro Mascarenhas, son of Dom Jorge Mascarenhas, Count of Castanheira, and later transferable to his nephew, Dom Pedro de Melo Mascarenhas. The petitioner requests legal authority to manage the estate, receive revenues, appoint attorneys, and conduct proceedings before royal judges (ouvidores). Multiple attestations by officials including Manuel Jacome Bravo, Chief Keeper of the Torre do Tombo, and notaries such as Pedro António de Carvalho and Gaspar Maldonado, confirm searches in chancery records and the authenticity of transcribed provisions. Marginalia, fiscal stamps (imposto do sello), and repeated archival markings (AHU, M. das C.) reflect bureaucratic verification processes. The text illustrates the operation of Iberian Union-era colonial administration, particularly regarding maritime privileges, succession rights, and Crown revenue management in relation to India, Malacca, Macao, and Japan.
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