service is required; for I have come hither five thousand leguas;
but if my departure hence is desirable, and if your Majesty is pleased
to command it, I shall regard it as a very great kindness. Above all
may your Majesty's royal will be fulfilled. May your royal person be
preserved for many years, as the whole of Christendom, and as we your
servants, have need. Manila, June 30, 1597.

_Doctor Antonio de Morga_

[_In the margin_: "Let everything referring to the miracles be
collected, and a summary thereof be made in the most authentic
manner."]




Administration of the Royal Hospital at Manila


Sire:

I have desired that the royal hospital of this city should be served
and administered with more charity, better order and a more perfect
system than hitherto; for I am told and I know how much the poor
thereof suffer, and of how much importance for the correction of
this and of many other evils is their good comfort, assistance, and
healing, spiritual and temporal--all which the hospital has in charge;
and how essential it is that it should be administered by persons
who are servants of God, self-denying and free from self-interest,
charitable and zealous for His service and for the good of their