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370 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. These offices he held at the time of his death.

The forty-sixth viceroy was the bailiff Frey Antonio María Bucareli y Ursua, Henestrosa, Lasso de la Vega, Villacis y Córdoba, knight commander of La Bóveda de Toro in the order of Saint John of Malta, and a lieutenant-general of the royal armies.

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. 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