7.  For the seventh question:  Whether they know that the hospital possesses an income of but little more than one thousand five hundred pesos, and that the gifts to it are very few.

8.  For the eighth question:  Whether they know that the said hospital needs more than six thousand pesos for its maintenance, since its expenses are high, and since there is no other food in this country that can be provided for the sick than fowls, which are valued at excessive rates—­as, for instance, two reals, or two and one-half or three reals.

9.  The ninth:  Let them state whether they know that the said hospital uses many drugs from Castilla and other regions, which are very dear, because they are brought from so great a distance as those who know say.

10.  For the tenth question:  Let them state whether they know that the said hospital is in great need of buildings for the service of the poor, and the accommodation of the others who work in the said hospital; since it has but one corridor, where the said sick are poorly accommodated and crowded; and that therefore the said hospital needs four more buildings.

11.  For the eleventh question:  Let them state whether they know that, in addition to the things enumerated above, the said hospital has need of a very large force of attendants, as brethren and slaves, and of other services from Indian men and women, upon whom a great sum of money is necessarily spent, both in wages and food; and that they are badly accommodated, because they have no adequate house.

12.  For question twelve:  Whether they know that all the aforesaid is public and well known.

Hernando de Los Rios

Evidence on the part of the hospital

In the city of Manila, on the fifteenth day of the month of April, one thousand five hundred and ninety-four, Colonel Hernando de los Rios, steward of the Spanish hospital of this city, in answer to the contents of the petition and interrogatory above set forth, presented as witness Fray Diego Munoz, prior of the convent of Sant Pablo de San Agustin of Manila, and commissary of the Holy Office.  Oath was taken from him in verbum sacerdotis, and he promised to tell the truth.  Being interrogated in accordance with the inquiry, he deposed as follows: 

1.  To the first question he answered that he knew of the royal hospital of this city of Manila from the time of its establishment by Doctor Santiago de Vera.  This was his answer.

Being asked the usual questions prescribed by law, he said that he was thirty-four years old and competent to be a witness.

2.  To the second question, he answered that he knew there is no other hospital for treating Spaniards throughout these islands except that of the said city of Manila.  Therefore Spaniards from all the islands, especially ordinary soldiers and mercenaries, go there for treatment.  This was his answer.