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good tiling- to busic the Indians vpon festival! dayes, seeing LlB vl 

 they have neede of some recreation : and because it is pub- 

 like, and without the prejudice of any other, there is lesse 

 inconvenience than in others, which may be done privately 

 by themselves, if they tooke away these. |We must there 

 fore conclude, following the counsel of pope Gregory, that 

 it was very convenient to leave vnto the Indians that 

 which they had usually of custom, so as they be not 

 mingled nor corrupt with their antient errors, and that 

 their feasts and pastimes may be to the honor of God and 

 of the Saints, whose feasts they celebrate^/ This may suf 

 fice in generall of the manors and politike customes of tho 

 Mexicaines. And as for their beginning, increase, and 

 Empire, for that it is an ample matter, and will be pleasant to 

 vnderstand from the beginning, we will intreato thereof in 

 the liookc following. 



