[6] Cruzat y Gongora's term of office was lengthened by the failure of his successor to go to the islands. This was Domingo Zabalburu de Echevarri, who was appointed September 18, 1694, but did not reach Manila until 1701. [7] Spanish, sobrino, which may be applied not only to a brother's or sister's child, but to that of a cousin-german. [8] Spanish, ni mejorarla [apelacion]; a legal phrase, meaning "to support the appeal before the superior court, after having appealed before it, by setting forth the injury that is experienced from any act issued by the lower court" (Barcia). [9] So in Ventura del Arco's transcription; but it would seem to be an error for 120--perhaps a copyist's conjecture of an illegible character--since it apparently refers to Gregory XIII's decree of 1572 (ante, p. 27). [10] He was almost seventy years old, according to Concepción (Hist. de Philipinas, viii, p. 229). [11] In the Latin Church the ecclesiastical orders are those of bishops, priests, deacons, sub-deacons, acolytes, exorcists, readers, and ostiarii, or doorkeepers. Many theologians reckon the number at seven, regarding the episcopate as merely the extension of the priesthood (Addis and Arnold, p. 621). [12] Spanish, seminario conciliar; "the house assigned for the education of the young men who devote themselves to the ecclesiastical career" (Barcia). [13] José Sarmiento Valladares, Conde de Montezuma, was the successor, in the viceroyalty of Nueva España, of Gaspar de la Cerda, Conde de Galve (whose term of office was November 20, 1688 to May, 1696). Valladares obtained his title by his marriage with Gerónima María, a lineal descendant of the Mexican emperor, and third countess of Montezuma. He took possession of the office on December 18, 1696, and held it until November 4, 1701. He was an able and efficient governor, and did much to repress crime, improve social conditions, aid the Indians in times of distress, and render the City of Mexico more strongly fortified. (Bancroft, Mexico, iii, pp. 222, 259, 264, 265.) [14] Miguel Bayót was a discalced Franciscan, an Aragonese, who came to the Philippines in 1669; he was employed in ministries to the Indians, and was long at the head of the hospice of the order in Mexico City. In 1695 he was appointed bishop of Cebú, when he was 52 years old, being then in Mexico, and took possession of his office in September, 1696; he died there on August 28, 1700. When he died, only the sum of five reals was found in his possession. (San Antonio, Chronicas, i, p. 212.) [15] The first page of this MS. is occupied by official attestations showing that on January 22, 1699, officially certified copies of these decrees by the archbishop were demanded by Antonio de Borja, procurator-general of the Jesuit province, from one of the alcaldes of Manila, Antonio Basarte, who ordered these copies to be made.