482 VICTOEY OVER THE TEPANECAS. 



LIB, vii^ a i wa yes for tlieir Lordes. Ypon this condition Tlacaellec 

 retired his men, and ceased the battell, graunting them 

 their lives upon the former conditions, which they did 

 solemnely sweare. Then they returned to Azcapuzalco, and 

 so with their rich and victorious spoiles to the cittie of 

 Mexico. The day following the king assembled the Nobil- 

 itie and the people, to whom he laid open the accord the 

 Commons had made, demaunding of them if they were con 

 tent to persist therin : the Commons made answer that they 

 had promised, and they had well deserved it, and therefore 

 they were content to serve them perpetually. Wherevpon 

 they took an othe, which since they have kept without con 

 tradiction. 



This done, Izcoatl returned to Azcapuzalco (by the advise 

 of his counsell), he divided all the lands and goods of the 

 conquered among the conquerours, the chiefest parte fell to 

 the King, then to Tlacaellel, and after to the rest of the 

 Nobles, as they best deserved in the battell. They also 

 gave land to some plebeians, having behaved themselves 

 valiantly ; to others they distributed the pillage, making 

 small account of them as of cowardes. They appointed lands 

 in common for the quarters of Mexico, to every one his part, 

 for the service and sacrifices of their gods. This was the 

 order, which after they aiwayes kept, in the division of the 

 lands and spoyles of those they had vanquished and sub- 

 dewed. By this meanes they of Azcapuzalco remained so 

 poore, as they had no lands left them to labor, and (which 

 was worse) they tooke their king from them, and all power 

 to chuse any other then him of Mexico. 



