Tomás de Almeida was made the King's chaplain of honour (sumilher da cortina), Governor of the Royal Treasury, Chancellor of the Kingdom, taking office on 24 November 1704.

José de Santa Maria Saldanha was appointed Bishop of Porto by decree of 30 April and royal charter of 26 May 1709, and on the same date Governor of Arms of the same city.

On 13 February 1717, Tomás entered Lisbon in majestic solemnity attended by the secular and regular clergy, state officials, a court procession, and troops formed in wings.

Father Francisco de Santa Maria recorded the events as follows: "His entry started in the church of San Sebastião da Pedreira, the noblemen of the court waiting for him on horseback.

When the councillors of the two chambers of Lisbon and the two wings that formed the regular communities, confraternities and brotherhoods of the city received him under a canopy of precious canvas, they arrived at the Holy Patriarchal Cathedral, this act to the hymn Te Deum laudamus, sung with solemnity.

He came to Lisbon to receive, on 3 March 1738, Julio Sacchetti, envoy of the Holy See, Canon of St. Peter in the Vatican and the Pope's chief chamberlain.

On 27 October 1753, he offered the Brotherhood of Santa Isabel part of his expensive silver flatware for their assistance in the reconstruction of the cathedral, upon his death he bequeathed the rest to them, then worth more than four reals.