Note 2 — Letter from the Fiscal to Felipe III
Reading edition
The hospital of the Spaniards also suffers from inadequate service, for lack of attendants; and it is necessary for your Majesty to provide a remedy, which can best be done by sending for this purpose brethren of St. John of God;2 for although Franciscan friars live there they attend only to the administration of the sacraments, and of everything else there is a lack.3 [165]