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CHAP. xi. Of Chimalpopoca, the third king, and his cruell 



death, and tJie occasion of warre which the 



Mex ica ines in a de . 



The Mexicaines, for successor to their deceased king, did LlD - T - 

 choose his sonue Chimalpopoca by common consent, although 

 he were a child of teune yeeres old, being of opinion that it 

 was alwayes necessary to keepe the favor of the king of 

 Azcapuzalco, making his grand-childe king. They then set 

 him in his throane, giving him the ensignes of warre, with 

 a bowe and arrowes in one hand, and a sword with rasours 

 (which they commonly vse) in the right, signifying thereby 

 (as they do say) that they pretended by arines to set them 

 selves at liberty. The Mexicaines had great want of water, 

 that of the Lake being very thicke and muddy, and there 

 fore ill to drincke, so as they caused their infant king to 

 desire of his grandfather, the king of Azcapuzalco, the 

 water of the mountaine of Chapultepec, which is from 

 Mexico a league, as is saide before, which .they easely ob 

 tained, and by their industry made an aqueduct of faggots, 

 weeds, and flagges, by the which they brought water to 

 their citty. But because the Cittie was built within the 

 Lake, and the aqueduct did cros&amp;lt;e it, it did breake forth in 

 many places, so us they could not inioy the water as they 

 desired, and had great scarcitie : whervpon, whether they 

 did expresly seeko it, to quarrell with the Tepanecas, or 

 that they were moovcd vppon small occasion, in the end 

 they sent a resolute ambassage to the king of Azcapuzalco, 

 saying they could not vse the water which he had gratiously 

 granted them, and therefore they required him to provide 

 them wood, lime, and stone, and to send his workmen, that 

 by their meanes they might make a pipe of stone and lime 

 that should not breake. This message nothing pleased the 

 king, and much lesse his subjects, seeming to be too pro- 



