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Finally, the descriptions of cities, towns and other places was to be as follows: in ecclesiastical history "they shall be described in their present state... in secular memoirs the place shall be described as it was at the time to which the achievements refer...". The title of each of the works was to be thus: Memoria para a Historia Ecclesiastica de Portugal do Arcebispado de &c [Memoir for the Ecclesiastical History of Portugal of the Archdiocese of &c].In the secular: Memorias para a Historia de Portugal que compreendem o Governo de….do anno de….até o anno de….dedicadas a El-Rey D. João V, nosso Senhor, aprovadas pela Academia Real da Historia Portuguesa, escritas pelo Academico F…[Memoirs for the History of Portugal that comprise the Government of….from the year ….until the year ….dedicated to our Lord King John V, approved by the Royal Academy of Portuguese History, written by the Academic F…]”. The final scheme of the overall works to be prepared - Historia Ecclesiastica destes Reynos, e depois tudo o que pertencer a toda a Historia delles, e de suas conquistas [Ecclesiastical History of these Kingdoms, and then everything belonging to their entire History and conquests] - would be as follows: Dedication to the king; Prologue, where “everything necessary for an understanding of the Memoirs shall be explained, with information on the printed books and manuscripts… place, year and name of the Printer, and the type of volume and number of pages”. This would be followed by the “alphabetical index of the abbreviations of the authors' surnames and works …”, followed by the “Chronological Table”. - The work shall be divided into “Books, chapters, paragraphs and numbers, and these shall run successively from the first to the last paragraph of one or more volumes…” - The years “shall be noted in the margins, as shall the authors, referenced books and documents…”. - “Only those events that are inseparable from it shall be addressed in a given history, and in the margins of the Ecclesiastical Memoirs the authors of the Secular Memoirs shall be cited, and in the latter the authors of the Ecclesiastical Memoirs...". Any doubts of a theological or legal nature to arise were to be communicated to the director and censors "... so that they could be distributed among the Academics, who are intended for this purpose". Finally, it was established that "There shall be no exposition or notes separate from the Memoirs at the end of the Books and Chapters, since all doubts shall be addressed in the same context, with the freedom offered by this kind of History, without obliging those who read it to look elsewhere for the resolution of issues".
