Year1562
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1562
Filipe Gentil de Limoges founded the chapel of São Filipe in Funchal and instituted his entail.
Inscribed stonesSt Philip (chapel) Filipe Gentil de Limoges Chapel of St Philip
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12 January 1562
A royal charter raised the priest's stipend at Estreito da Calheta, proving the parish already existed.
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6 July 1562
King Sebastião created by charter the post of jailer of the Funchal Aljube.
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20 July 1562
A royal charter created two curacies at the Sé, relieving the dean of parish duties.
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27 August 1562
Queen-regent Catarina promulgated the Regimento das Madeiras, Madeira's forest code, requiring licences for felling, ordering chestnut and pine planting and entrusting forest protection to local officials.
AfforestationTimberCoinageForest PoliceForest regime Queen Catherine
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26 September 1562
Queen Catarina ordered the Socorridos, Piornais and Castelejo levadas to be cleaned at the owners' expense.
Levadas Queen Catherine Ribeira dos SocorridosPiornaisCastelejo
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19 October 1562
An alvará of Queen-regent Catarina extended the cleaning duty to all levadas, placing them under the captain-donataries with priority for cane fields and mills.