[14] Spanish, catedratico de decreto. The Decreto was the book compiled by Gratianus which forms the first part of the canon law.
[15] “More properly Konkanis; the modern division of North Canara is part of the territory properly known as the Konkan, and the old Portuguese called the natives of their territory, both those of Goa and the North (properly the Konkanis), and also those to the southward, indiscriminately Canarins.” “The Canarins (who are heathen), are of two sorts, for such as are engaged in trade and other honorable callings are held in much greater respect than those who engage in fishing, or practice mechanical crafts.” Canarin is the Portuguese form of the name applied to the natives of the coast, and interior north of Malabar, as far as and including Goa district; another form of the name is Karnatic, although it is now applied to the Tamil country on the eastern side of the Indian peninsula.—See Voyage of Pyrard de Laval (Hakluyt Society Publications, London, 1887–88) and notes by Gray and Bell, i, pp. 375–376, ii, pp. 35, 405–406.
[16] Payo Enriquez de Rivera was a native of Sevilla, and son of the Duke de Alcalá, viceroy of Naples. In 1628 he made profession in the Augustinian order, and after obtaining his degrees in theology and philosophy held various important offices in Spain. In 1657 he was presented to the see of Guatemala, and ten years later to that of Michoacan; soon afterward he was made archbishop of Mexico, which office he assumed in June 1668. The viceroyalty of Mexico becoming vacant by the death of Pedro Nuño Colon, Duke de Veraguas, a few days after taking possession of that government (December, 1673), he was immediately succeeded, by a royal order anticipating this event, by Fray Payo de Rivera, who ruled Nueva España for seven years. Rivera was distinguished by his ability as a ruler, not only in matters ecclesiastical, but in civil and military affairs—to all of which he attended with zeal and prudence; and he was beloved by the people. In July, 1681, he set out for Spain, where he had two important appointments from the government; but he declined these, and retired to the convent of Santa María del Risco. He died on April 8, 1684, honored in both life and death by the government and by his people. (Bancroft’s Mexico, iii, pp. 182–187.)
[17] Our Constitutions inhibit such procedure, the applying to courts outside the order. For us, appeals lie only to the Pontiff, who, being the common father of the faithful, is not considered an outsider.—Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.
[18] i.e., “The party dispossessed must first of all be restored, any other proceeding being deferred.”
[19] Referring to a work by the Jesuit writer Martin Martini (1614–61), who for many years was a prominent missionary in China. This was his Novus atlas Sinensis (Vienna, 1655), which formed part 10 of the great atlas published by Joannis Blaeu at Amsterdam (1656). Diaz hispanicizes Martini’s name, and rather curiously uses the Italian word atlante for “atlas” instead of the Spanish atlas.
[20] More strictly the name Coromandel is applied to the eastern coast of India north of Cape Comorin, and Malabar to the western coast.
[21] i.e., “It shall not be compared with the dyed colors of India” (Job, xxviii, v. 16).
[22] See plan of Madras, and maps of Coromandel coast, in Bellin’s Atlas maritime, iii, fol. 37–39.
[23] The Basilian order was founded by St. Basil, bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. His rule became so popular in the East as to supplant all others; and at this day it alone is recognized and followed by the monks of the Greek Church. This order also made its way into southern Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Russia. Nearly all the convents of Basilian nuns (founded by St. Macrina, sister of Basil), like those of the monks, have embraced the Eastern schism. (Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, citing Hélyot’s Ordres monastiques.)