feminine

1. Estate.
2. Financial affairs. [Pedro, ch. 13: 21]
3. "fazenda real", "fazenda do rei", "sua [do rei] fazenda": the Crown estate. [Pedro, ch. 4: 19]

1. Favor.
2. Authority. [Pedro, ch. 41: 44]
3. Mercee d'el-rrei: king's favor. [Pedro, ch. 4: 17]
4. Fazer mercês: to grant favors. 

1. Letter.
2. Charter. [Pedro, ch. 4: 14, 29]

1. Obsequies; funeral; burial rites. (FF)
2. Month's mind. [João 1, ch. 4: 16]

Clergy, clerics.

Letter of credence.

1. Windlass-operated crossbow; windlass crossbow. [NF]
2. See explanation and illustration at: http://www.personal.ars-informatica.ca/paul/wot/wot.php?page=shen_calhar; see also: João Gouveia Monteiro, A Guerra em Portugal nos finais da Idade Média (Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1998), pp. 534-5. [NF]

troops, armies

1. Cortes.
2. The Cortes was the national assembly, drawn from the nobility, the clergy and the commoners, the task of which was to advise the king on legislation. (CW)

1. CDF, ch. 35, l. __.
2. bridge.
Ponte de barcas: bridge of boats (CDF, ch.35, l.__)