At the conclusion of his career, Father Leturiondo stepped back to summarize the king's limosnas in a memorial addressed to the king himself. "Although the provinces of Florida are very rich and fertile, inasmuch as those who cultivate them are few, and of these the majority occupied in the service of Your Majesty, the harvests can never be sufficient for sustaining the presidio. And neither for this, nor for its provinces can it provide the clothing needed nor what [is necessary for] divine worship because some types of fabric are not available there unless they enter from outside. . . . [So that] nothing at all should be wanting, Your Majesty, with your paternal disposition, decreed that a large sum should be assigned and given to the said presidio from the royal funds of the city of Mexico so that the necessary goods might be purchased with it for the clothing, the flour and the rest of the foodstuffs for the maintenance of the said presidio, the wine and oil for the religious services and for the maintenance of the doctrinas for the Christian Indians who are under the care of the religious of St. Francis. Inasmuch as this endowment which Your Majesty gives represents the totality of the maintenance and conservation of everything that exists in the said provinces, ecclesiastical as well as secular, without this, all those provinces would perish, religion would languish, and everything would deteriorate" (Leturiondo 1700). (Bushnell SS)