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Ptier Jofeph, de Betancourt * founded them to ferve the 

 Poor, Pope Innocent XL approved of the Inftitution, in 

 the Year 1697, They have already Nine Monafteries in 

 Peru. Thofe Friers, tno to outward Appearance very 

 Simple, are reckoned refined Politicians, as may be judgd 

 by the Name of the Quinteffence of Carmelites and jefuites, 

 given them by the People. They are Brothers. They 

 choofe for their Chaplain a Secular Prieft, whom they keep 

 in their Houfe at a certain Allowance ; but he has no 

 Vote among them. They are clad like the Capucins, ex- 

 cepting that under their Beard they have a Bib, a quarter 

 ^of a Yard long, ending in a Point. Their Founder, as 

 thofe good Friers give out, had, during Eleven Years, the 

 Company of our Saviour vifibly carrying his Crofs. The 

 other Apparitions and Revelations they place to his Account, 

 and which they publifh by Word of Mouth, and by Pictures, 

 are of the fame Reputation. 

 Wml There are fomewhat fewer Nuns at Lima, than Friers 



there are only twelvg Monafteries of them. 1. That of the 

 Incarnation of Regular Canoneffes of S, Auguflin. 2 . The 

 Conception of the fame Order. 3 . The Trinity of the Or- 

 der of S. Bernard. 4. S. Jofeph of the Conception, more 

 auftere than the other, contains the Barefoot Nuns of the 

 Order of S. Auguflin. 5. S. Clare, founded by the 

 Archbilhop Toribio, preferves the Heart of ks Founder, and 

 contains above 300 Franciscan Nuns. & S. Katharine of 

 Siena, of the Order of S. V&minich 7. S. Rofe of S. Mary, 

 of the fame Order. 8. That they call del Prado, or of the 

 Meadow, of Recolet Auguflins. 9. S. Terefa, of Carme- 

 lites. 1 o . SL Rofe of Vherho. 1 1 . The Trinitarians. 1 2 . 

 The JESUS-Mary of Capuchins, ercfted in 1 713, by four 

 Nuns that came from Spain, by the way of Buenos Ayres, 



whom 



* Perhaps he was a Defcendent of a French Gentleman named Bfctancourt, 

 who having ftok a young Woman, fled to the Iflmd of 'era, where he firfi 

 planted a chriftian Colony. R du Tertre 5 p< Jays \ lit in the 7V*r 1642, 



fw a Francifcan in that Ijland^ who /aid he ms of that Family, 



