5 7 8 The frfytur all and Moral! 



The fecond^who cried out their enemies fled,at the which 

 voice all the people ran together with a horrible furie : (b 

 as in pafling,theiecond bridge, they were fo charged and 

 purfued , as there remained above three hundred men 

 flaine & hurt in one place; where at this day there is a final 

 hermitage,whichthey vnpropcrly calofMartyrs, Many 

 Spaniards (to prefervethe gold & ievvells which they had 

 gotten,)perifhed,& others ftaying to carry it away, were 

 taken by the Mexicans, & cruelly facrificed to their idols. 

 The Mexicans found king Motecum* dead,& wounded as 

 they fay with poiniards, and they hold opinion that that 

 night the Spaniards flew him with other Noblemen.The 

 JJarquifein his relation fcntto the Emperour, writes the 

 contrary, &that the Mexicans killed him that night with 

 a fon ofMotepwa, which he led with him amongft other 

 noblemen, faying, thatallthetreafureof gold,ftoncs,and 

 filver,fell into the lake & was never more feene.lBut how- 

 foever, Mote$uma died miferably ,& paied his deferts to the 

 iuft Judgement of ouv Lord of heaven for his pride & ty 

 ranny j his body falling into faz Indians powcr,they would 

 make him no obfequies of a king, no not of an ordinarie 

 perfbn,but caftit away in great difJairse & rage. A fervant 

 of his having pittie of this Kings miferie,(\vho before had 

 bene feared and worfhipped as a God) made a fier there 

 of, and put the afhcs in a conteniptible place. Returning 

 to the Spaniards thatefcaped,they v/ere greatly tyred and 

 turmoiled, the Indians following them two or three daics 

 very refolutcly, giving them no time of reft, being fbdi- 

 ftrefled for vidualls,as a fe>v graines of Mays were divided 

 amongft them for their me*1te.| The relations both of the 

 Spaniards & Indians agree,that God delivered them here 

 miraculoufly,the Virgin Mary defending them on a little 

 hill, whereat this day three leagues from Mexico, there is a 



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