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part fell to the King, then to.TlaMcBccflnd after to the 

 reft of the Nobles , as they beft deferved in the battell. 

 They alfo gave land to fomc plebeians , having beha 

 ved themfelves valiantly- to others they diftributed the 

 pillage, making fijiall account of them as of cowardes. 

 They appointed lands in common for the quarters of 

 Mexico^ every one his part, for the iervice and facrifi- 

 ces of their gods . This was the order which after they 

 ahvayes kept, in the divifion of the lands and fpoyles of 

 thofc they had vanquished and fubdevved . By this, 

 meanes they Q d%captti(alco remained fb poore, as they 

 had no lands left them to labor,and (which was worfe) 

 they tooke their king from them, & all power to chufe 

 any other then him ofMs 



of the warn and victory th: Mexicans h*d 

 the cittic of Cuyoacan. C H A p. 14. 



Lthough the chicle Cittie of the TdpMectns, was- 

 _ __that of <^4%gapu%alco., yet had they others with 

 the ir private Lordcs, zsTttctwa and Cwoacan . Thefe 

 feeing theftormepafled, wouldgladly thatthcy ofyfe. 

 apuz,a!colizd renewed die warreagainft the Mexicans, 

 and feeing them donted^s a nation wholy broken and 

 defeated , they of Cttyoacan refolved to make warre by 

 themfelves; tathe which they laboured to draw the o- 

 ther neighbor nations, who would not ftirre nor quar 

 rel! with the Mexicans, In the meanetimethehatred 

 and malice increafing, they of CuyoAcan bc s ganne to ill 

 intreate the women that went to their markets, mock- 

 ingat thera, and doing the like to the men over whom 

 they had powcnfor which caufc the kirtg of Mexico de- 

 faided^thatnoneofhisfliould goet-G#y0acai, and 



that 



