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didfay,(asinaproverbe,) the pfalmc of Lancer 0. Being 

 examined by fuchasheld authority in the Church,his of 

 fice & works wereapproved.Some men worthy of creditc 

 report, (and I have heard itfpoken, ) that in the cittie of 

 C#/?0,whenas the Spaniards were befieged and fo ftraight- 

 ly prefied, that without helpe from heaven, it was impo 

 fible to efcape , the Indians cafting fire on the tops of the 

 houfes, whether the Spaniards were retyred , (in which 

 place the great Church is now built,) & although the co 

 vering were of a kind of ftraw,which they call chicho, and 

 that the fire they caft, was of the wood of fat & flimy firre- 

 trees^yet nothing was fet on fire,nor burnt, for that there 

 was a woman did quench it preiently , the which the Indi 

 ans did vifibly fee , as they confeffed afterwards being 

 much amazed .It is moft certaine by the relations of many, 

 and by the Hiftories which are written, that in divers bat- 

 tailes which theSpaniards had, as well in New Sfaine, as 

 mPertt^ the Indians their enemies did lee a horfe-man in 

 theaire, mounted on a whit horfe , with a fwordinhis 

 hand,fighting for the Spaniards,whence comes the great 

 reverencethey bearcat the Indies to the glorious Apoftle 

 Saint lames. Other whiles they did fee in fomebattailes, 

 the imageof our Ladie , from whom the Chriftians have 

 received in thofe partes incomparable favours andbenc- 

 fites : if I (hould particularly relate all the workes of hea 

 ven, as they happened, it would make a very longdif- 

 courfe.lt fufficeth to have faid this,by reafon of the favour 

 which the Queene of glorie did to our men, when they 

 were prefTed andpurfued by the Mexicans, the which I 

 have fet downe , to the end we may know how our Lord 

 hath had a care to favour the faith and Chriftian religion, 

 defending thofe that maintained it, although happily by 

 their workes they deferved not fo great favours and be- 



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