The Hospital de Jesús Nazareno of Mexico City and the restitution clauses of Cortés's testament

A hospital founded in Mexico City in the first years after the conquest under the advocation of la Purísima Concepción, endowed by Hernán Cortés in the same testament whose clauses 39 to 41 order his heir to find out whether the slaves, lands and personal services he had taken could be held with good conscience, and to restore what could not. The charity and the admission of doubt are in one document, and so is the hospital's own use of eight enslaved servants a century later.