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considerable ; the others, besides being small, have 

 but few members, and small revenues. 



Besides the preceding nineteen convents and col- 

 leges, here are also an oratory of St. Philip Neri ; a 

 monastery of the order of St. Benedict, with the title 

 of Nuestra Señora de Monserrat, the abbé of which - 

 is commonly the only member, and sent from Spain ; 

 and though this foundation is one of the most ancient 

 in the whole city, its revenue is hardly suihcient to 

 support any more : a convent called Nuestra Se- 

 ñora de la Buena Muerte, or the order of that name, 

 generally known by the name of Agonizantes. This 

 order founded an hospital in the city, in 17] 5, under 

 the particular direction of the lathers Juan Mugnos, 

 and Juan Fernandez, who with a lay brother of the 

 same Oider having in 1736 obtained a licence from 

 the council of the Indians, went from Spain and 

 founded a convent of community in every form. In 

 the suburb of St. Lázaro is also a convent of St. 

 Francis de Paula, a modern foundation, under the 

 name of Nuestra Señora del Scorro. 



There "are also in Lima three other charitable 

 foundations, namely : St. Juan de Dios, served by the 

 religious of that order, and appropriated to the re- 

 lief of persons recovering from sickness ; and two of 

 Bethlcmitcs ; one of which, being the Casa grande> 

 is without the city, and founded for the relief of sick 

 Indians, who are taken care of in Santa Anna ; and 

 the other within the city, called that' of the incura- 

 bles, being appropriated to persons labouring under 

 diseases of that nature. The latter, as we have al- 

 ready observed,* was founded so early as the year 

 1671. This opulent city has also nine other hos- 

 pitals, each appropriated to some peculiar charity. 



1 . San Andres, a royal foundation admitting only 

 gpaniards, 



* Chap. IV. Lib. V. Vo^. I. 



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