[96] Tomás Antonio de la Cerda, Conde de Paredes and Marqués de la Laguna, succeeded Archbishop Rivera as viceroy of Nueva España on November 30, 1680; he held this office six years. During this time the shores of Nueva España were continually harassed by pirates and buccaneers--the most notable event being their capture and sack of Vera Cruz in May, 1683. [97] This word cannot be found in the Spanish lexicons, and is probably a Siamese word, since on old maps of Siam are numerous place-names which begin with the syllable Ban. Bandel may be a place-name, but more probably designates the trading-post occupied by the Portuguese. [98] The Windward fleet (armada de Barlovento) was maintained to protect Spanish commerce in the Atlantic between Spain and America. In 1689 it was composed of six ships of the line and a frigate. (Bancroft's Mexico, iii, p. 224.) [99] Pérez's Catálogo enumerates forty-five in this mission band. Among them was a priest, Diego Higinio, who for many years ministered to the lepers in Bisayas. [100] Spanish, hermano mayor, that is, the brother at the head of the association. [101] The reference is to a passage in canon law, in the Corpus Juris, which runs thus: Si Episcopus à Paganis aut Schismaticis capiatur, non Archiepiscopus, sed Capitulum ... ministrare debebit:... The full citation is: Si Episcopus, "De supplenda negligentia Prælatorum," lib. i, cap. iii, in Sexto. The Sextus, or sixth book, from which the above is taken, is entitled, Sexti Decretalium Liber, of Pope Boniface VIII; and is described in Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, p. 106.--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A. [102] i.e., "Courage holds greater sway in a small body." [103] That is, who had deserved it before his coming, but thus far had managed to escape punishment. [104] Spanish, mala feria, "a bad fair;" referring to the annual gathering of buyers at Acapulco on the arrival of the Manila galleon.