Article Nº 2294 Donatary, governor or ruler Vol. II · p. 655
Mascarenhas (Manuel de Sousa)
Governor and captain-general of Madeira from 1645, arrested by his successor for grave abuses in office.
He was appointed Governor and Captain-General (capitão-general, military governor of Madeira) of Madeira on 27 February 1645 and took office on 11 April of the same year. He was arrested by his successor, Manuel Lôbo da Silva, under an order the latter brought from the government in mainland Portugal, Manuel de Sousa Mascarenhas being accused of grave abuses in the exercise of his office as Governor of this archipelago.
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