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LIVRO para as Contas da Irmandade das Almas da Freguesia de Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto. 1780-1789. - LIVRO para as Contas da Irmandade das Almas da Freguesia de Rio Tinto . Contas que dam o Thezoureiro e Mordomos das Almas da Freg.ª de S. Christovão de Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto, 1780-1789. manuscrito sobre papel; 43 ff. numerados à mão; pasta em pergaminho da época com título manuscrito na capa; 300 mm. Account book of the Brotherhood of Souls of the Parish of S. Cristóvão de Rio Tinto, covering the years 1780 to 1789, in a state of preservation that allows for the complete reading of the text. Bound in parchment from the period, with the title and date inscribed on the cover: ”Account Book of the Brotherhood of Souls of the Parish of Rio Tinto. Year 1780”. The manuscript annually records the income and expenditure accounts presented by the treasurer and stewards of the brotherhood, following the usual format of 18th-century Portuguese confraternities: a list of the stewards in office, income from the sale of agricultural products – corn, rye, wheat, flax – collected as alms or rents, and cash income; expenses for prayers, masses, funeral services, and other religious obligations of the brotherhood. The names of the stewards vary from year to year, reflecting the annual rotation of the position, and constitute a list of families from the parish of Rio Tinto throughout the 1780s. The book also records, for the year 1789, a request made by the stewards to the Provider for authorization to withdraw money from the brotherhood's deposit in order to acquire a bell to signal the members of the confraternity and for other funerals in the parish. The brotherhoods of souls, devotional and assistance institutions with a large presence in Portuguese parishes during the Old Regime, had as their main mission to ensure prayers for deceased members and, in general, for the souls in purgatory; their financial management, based on the collection of goods and money and its application to worship and funeral assistance, is exactly what this book documents for the 1780s in the parish of Rio Tinto. The pages feature a supervisory rubric from an ecclesiastical or civil authority in the upper corner, attesting to the institutional control to which the brotherhoods' accounts were subject by the Court of Residues and Chapels. This document is of interest to the local history of Rio Tinto and to the study of brotherhoods and Portuguese parish religious life during the Pombaline and Marian periods. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate