lib. 7. 



Church built in remembrance thereof , called our Lady of 

 fuccour. They rety red to their antient friends ofTlafeatta, 

 whence (by their aide, & the valour & pollicie of Cortes,) 

 they returned afterwards to make war againft Mexico , by 

 water and land, with an invention of brigantines, which 

 they put into the lake, where after many combates,and a- 

 bove threefcore dangerous battaifes 5 they conquered Mex* 

 r0 5 on S. Hippotitus day , the 1 3 . of Auguft , 1521. The laft 

 king of the Mexicans, (havingobftinately maintained the 

 wars,) was in the end taken in a great canoe, whereinto he 

 fled , who being brought with fome other of thechiefeft 

 nohlemen before Fernando Cortes, this pettie king with a 

 ftrange refolution and courage, drawing his dagger, came 

 neere to C0rtes,and faid vnto tiimyntitt this day I have done 

 my heft indevourforthe defence of my people \.no\v am I no far 

 ther bound ,btrt to give thee this dagger to killme therewith. C$r+ 

 us anfwered,that he would not kill him, neither was it his 

 intention to hurt them:but their obftinate folly was guil- 

 tie of all the mifery & affidions they had fuffered, neither 

 were they ignorant how often he had required peace and 

 amity at their hands.He then commanded them to be in- 

 treated curteouflyjMany ftrange&admirable things chan 

 ced in this conqueft of Mexico : for I neither hold it for an 

 vntruth,noran addition,which many write, that God fa 

 voured the Spaniards by many miracles-: for elfe it had bin 

 impoflible to furmount fo many difficulties, without the 

 favour of heaven, and to fubie& this nation withfo fe\Y 

 men. For although we were finners, & vnworthy fo great 

 a favour,yet the caufeofour God, the glorie of our faith, 

 the good of fo many thoufandsfoules, as werein thefe 

 countries, whome the Lord had predeftinate, wrought 

 this change which wee now fee,by fupcrnaturall meanes, 

 and proper to himfelfe which calles the blinde and 



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