Las Amparadas de la Purisima Concepcion: the house of recogidas of Lima

A viceroy of Peru spent close to fifty thousand pesos on a house for women in Lima, put it under royal patronage, and left it with no income at all. His successor's relacion prints both halves: the chapel and the jewels, then the two royal alms of which only one was ever paid, the coarse sackcloth, the enclosure without communication, and the sentence that the women who enter are Spanish. A bishop of Quito shows the other face of the word, applying recogimiento to indigenous noblewomen.