 There were attempts throughout to rebuild, the most notable in 1707.The King had sent a large sum of money for the church to be rebuilt, but the funds were never spent on the church as intended—they were spent instead on provisions, back pay for soldiers, and public officials taking a cut (a similar misappropriation of funds had occurred in almost the same manner about a century earlier).During the first half of the 18th century, priests held mass in what was a portion of St. Augustine's hospital.