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flutes and drummes, which did much increase the sorrow of 

 his kinsfolkes and subjects. The priest who did the office 

 was decked with the raarkcs of the idoll which the noble 

 man had represented, for all noble men did represent idolles, 

 and carried the name of some one, and for this occasion they 

 were esteemed and honoured. The order of knighthoode 

 did commonly carry these forsaido markes. He that should 

 bo burnt, being brought to the place appoynted, they iuvi- 

 roned him with wood of pine trees and all his baggage, then 

 set they fire vnto it, increasing it still with goomie wood, 

 vntill that all wero converted into ashes, then came there 

 foorth a Priest attired like a Divell, having mouthes vpon 

 every ioynt of him, and many eyes of glasse, holding a great 

 staffe with the which hee did mingle all the ashes very 

 boldly and with so terrible a gesture, as he terrified all the 

 assistants. Sometimes the minister had other different 

 habites according to the qualitio of the dead. I have 

 made this digression of obsequies and funeralls vpon the 

 idolatry and superstition they had to the dead. It is reason 

 to returno now to our chicle subject and to finish this 

 matter. 



CHAP. IX. Tit &amp;lt; , fontiJi and lust kinde of Idolatry the Indians 

 uiH. d, especially tJic Mcxicaines, to Imajcs and Uull*. 



Although in trueth God is greatly offended with these 

 above named Idolatries, where they woorship the creatures; 

 yet the holy Ghost doth much more reproove and condemne 

 another kind of idolatry, and that is of those that worship 

 Images and figures made by the hand of men, which have 

 nothing else in them but to be of wood, stone, or mettall, 

 and of such forme as God hath given them. And therefore 

 the Wiseman speaketh thus of such people, &quot;They are 

 miserable, whose hopes mny be counted among the dead, 





