On the 21st of April 1770 he was commissioned a captain-general of the royal army; and as a further reward of his faithful services, on being relieved from the government of New Spain the 22d of September 1771, he was promoted to viceroy and captain-general of the kingdom of Valencia in Spain.[1] These offices he held at the time of his death.[2]
The forty-sixth viceroy was the bailiff Frey Antonio María Bucareli y Ursua, Henestrosa, Lasso de la Vega, Villacis y Córdoba, knight commander[3] of La Bóveda de Toro[4] in the order of Saint John of Malta, and a lieutenant-general of the royal armies.[5]
Bucareli was a native of Seville, and related to the most noble families of Spain and Italy, being on his paternal side a descendant from a very distinguished family of Florence, which boasted among its connections three popes, six cardinals, and other high officers of the state and church; and on the maternal, the Ursuas were related to several ducal families.[6] The knight entered the military service of his country as a cadet, and rose by gallantry and honorable service to be lieutenant-general. He had distinguished himself in several campaigns in Italy and Spain, in en-
- ↑ About the time of his departure the spite of his enemies was displayed in doggerel verse, depreciating his rule, and even hinting at peculation. Vir. Instrucc., MS., Ist ser., no. 13, 1-3; no. 14, 1-4.
- ↑ In 1786, at the age of 87 years. Gomez, Diario, in Doc. Hist. Mex., 2d ser., vii. 259-60. In 1775 had been paid him out of the Mexican treasury by royal order an extra allowance of $12,000. Mex., Circular sobre Nomb., MS., no. 8.
- ↑ In 1776 he called himself knight grand cross, and commander, having been promoted to the former dignity by the grand master of the order. Cédulario, MS., i. 153, iii. 64; Disposiciones Varias, i., no. 26; Panes, Vir., in Monum. Dom. Esp., MS., 51.
- ↑ One author says La de Osma. Panes, in Id., 124. And still another work descriptive of the viceroy's funeral, in the title-page has it La Tocina. The same is found in some of Bucareli's later edicts. Bucareli, Breve Descrip., Disposiciones Varias, i. 57.
- ↑ Later, probably after 1776, the king bestowed on him the office of a 'gentil hombre de cámara con entrada.' Panes, in Id., 124.
- ↑ Alburquerque, Lerma, Denia, Alba, Arcos, Medina-Coeli, etc. Bucareli was received into the order of Malta by special dispensation, when he was still under the prescribed age. Uribe, Elogio, in Breve Descrip., 8-10.
from import duty on some barrels of Bordeaux wine. Bustamante, Suplem., in Cavo, Tres Siglos, iii. 13-14.
