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and government, their lawes, customes, and their deedes. 

 And for that the memorie is preserved amongst the Mexi- 

 caine Nation, of their beginnings, successions, warres, and 

 other things worthie the relation ; besides that which shall 

 be handled in the sixt booke, I will make a peculiar Dis 

 course in the seventh, shewing the disposition and fore- 

 warnings this Nation had of the new Kingdome of Christ 

 our Lord, which should be extended in these Countries, and 

 should conquer them to himselfe, as he hath done in all the 

 rest of the world. The which in truth is a thing worthie of 

 great consideration, to see how the divine providence hath 

 appointed that the light of his word should finde a passage 

 in the furthest boundes of the world. It is not my proiect 

 at this time to write what the Spaniardes have done in 

 those partes, for there are bookes enow written vpon this 

 subiect, nor vet how the Lordes servants have laboured 

 and profited, for that requires a new labour. I will onely 

 content my selfe to plant this Historie and relation at the 

 doores of the Gospel, seeing it is alreadie entered, and to 

 make knowne the Naturall and Morall things of the Indies, 

 to the end that Christianitie may be planted and augmented, 

 as it is expounded at large in the bookes we have written, 

 De procuranda Indiorum salute. And if any one wonder at 

 some fashions and customes of the Indies, and wil scorne 

 them as fooles, or abhorre them as divelish and inhumane 

 people, let him remember that the same things, yea, worse, 

 have beene seene amongst the Greekes and Romans, who 

 have commanded the whole world, as we may easily vndcr- 



