1
The person selected was Don Nicolas de Ovando, comendador of Lares, of the military order of Alcantara.
2
Bobadilla was a stern and rigorous churchman, comendador, or commander, of one of the famous religious-military orders in Spain.
3
Diego replied that the prisoners were held by order of the viceroy, and that the viceroy's authority was higher than the comendador's.
4
The comendador had been brutal, it is true; but it was not true that he had gone beyond the extent of his commission.
5
El Comendador's people tied their adversary, while their enemies tied one of his men.
6
El Comendador's champions repeated the invocation, "St. Mary, help me, St. Mary, help me!"
7
This miracle struck terror into the Comendador's enemies, and they recognised that the zemes of the Virgin was more powerful than their own.
8
This devil sought to untie the young man who was acting as his champion, but at the first invocation of the Comendador the Virgin appeared.