3^ A V O Y A G E T O Book VII. 



confiderable ; the others, befides being fmall, have 

 but few members, and fmall revenues. 



Besides the preceding nineteen convents and col- 

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

 monaitery of the order of St. Benedid, with the title 

 of Nueftra Senora de Monferrat, the abbey of which 

 is commonly the only member, and fent from Spain 

 and though this foundation is one of the moft anci- 

 ent in the whole city, its revenue is hardly fufficient 

 to fupport any more: a convent called Nueftra Se- 

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

 generally known by the name of Agonizantes. This 

 order founded an hofpital in the city, in 17 15, under 

 the particular direction of the fathers Juan Mugnos, 

 and Juan Fernandez, who with a lay ferother of the 

 fame order having in 1736, obtained a licenfe from 

 the council of the Indians, went from Spain and founded 

 a convent of community in every form. In the fuburb 

 of St. Lazaro is alfo a convent of St. Francis de Paula, 

 a modern foundation, under the name of Nueftro 

 Senora del Scorro. 



There are alfo in Lima three other charitable 

 foundations, namely, St. Juan de Dios, ferved by the 

 religious of that order, and appropriated to the re- 

 lief of perfons recovering from ficknefs ; and two of 

 Bethlemites ; one of which, being the Cafa grande, 

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

 Indians, who are taken care of in Santa Ana and 

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

 bles, being appropriated to perfons labouring under 

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

 ready obferved, * was founded fo early as the year 

 1 67 1. This opulent city has alfo nine other hofpi- 

 tals, each appropriated to fome peculiar charity, 



I. San Andres, a royal foundation, admitting only 

 Spaniards. 



* Chap. IV. Lib. V. Vol. i. 



2. San 



