nd servants, the improvement of the vegetable-garden,
and other things necessary for the treatment of the sick.

For these reasons I entreat and supplicate your royal Majesty, with the
utmost humility, on my own part and on that of the said poor who are
treated in the hospital, that you will do us the favor of adding some
further charity to the grants which you have made to this hospital, for
the supply of the many wants which arise every day and are increasing.

Still further, I entreat and supplicate your royal Majesty that the
favor which the Catholic and royal Majesty, Don Phelipe our lord,
the father of your royal Majesty (whom may God our Lord keep in His
heaven!), granted to us, by commanding that we be allowed to send
four toneladas of freight in his royal ships, be also continued to
us free from customs duties and any other dues which pertain to your
royal Majesty, whether in this city of Manila or in Nueva Espana,
or in any other part of your realms.

Moreover, since the minister of this hospital is always a father who
is a priest, who will administer the sacraments not only to the sick
who come to the said hospital for treatment, but to all the people
who serve therein or who reside on the stock-farm which belongs to
the hospital, as well as to many other people in all this city and
in the islands who usually come to this hospital for confession;
and besides this, your Majesty pays from his royal treasury the
archbishop, qura, and canons of the cathedral of Manila for their
labors in ministering to the Indians, in all matters for which the
tithes are not sufficient--I entreat your royal Majesty to command
your royal officials in this city of Manila that they recompense
the said archbishop, cura, and canons in such manner that they shall
not enter the stock-farm of the said hospital to collect tithes and
firstfruits, since hitherto they have never entered there. And in
all things I entreat the royal Majesty of your royal Majesty, etc.

Letters from the Royal Fiscal to the King

Sire:

After having given an account to your Majesty, in so far as concerns my
office of fiscal of this royal Audiencia of these Philipinas Islands,
of the affairs of justice, by another letter which accompanies this,
it seemed best to me to give one concerning those things which touch
the royal exchequer, in the following manner.

1. The royal exchequer of your Majesty in these islands is not
sufficient by a large s