Note 8 — ANDA’S MEMORIAL, 1768
Reading edition
It is an abuse that, although the spiritual administration belongs by right to the secular clergy, and the regulars possess it precariously ad nutum [misprinted mitum] regis propter inopiam clericorum in principio,8 the greatest promotion which an unemployed secular obtains in Filipinas is to be the servant or deputy of the fathers.9 Thence it results that the latter abound in so great wealth, collectively and singly, and the former suffer from necessity; and all of them are the sons of Spaniards and Indian women, and all vassals of the king. In view of this disclosure, what father will spend and what son will work without even a remote hope of reward?