ANNUNCIACION ANOTHER TONGUE. 29 
Annunciacion {Fr. luan de la) — continued. 
A gloria y honia de Dios nuestro seiLor, y de la gloriosa virgen 
sancta Maria seiiora nuestra, en el vltimo dia del mes de Septieinbre 
se acabo la impression de aquesta obra, de Sermouario y Cathecismo. 
Copuesta por el muy reuerendo padre Fray luan de la Annuciacion, 
Subprior del luonasterio de Saut Augustin de aquesta cindad de 
Mexico. En Mexico. Por Antonio Eicardo Impressor de libros. 
Auo de. M. D. LXXVII. [1577.] * 
125 Aq Seco tiene un Sermon para publicar la Sancta Bulla, q 
por Mandamiento del ylluserissimo Seiior D. Pedro Moya de Con- : '^TiTfTTr 
treras, Ar^obispo de Mexico. En Lengua Mexicana y Castellana. 
[Mexico: 1577.] * 
9 II. 4°. Excessively rare tract. — Fischer Sale Cat. 
126 Another Tongue brought in, to Confess | the Great Saviour of the 
World. I Or, | Some Communications | of | Christianity, | Put into a 
Tongue used among the | Iroquois Indians, | in America | And, Put 
into the Hands of the English | and the Dutch Traders : | To accomo- 
date the Great Intention of | Communicating the Christian | Reli- 
gion, unto the Salvages, | among whom they may find any thing | 
of this Language to be intelligible. | Ezek. iii 6 | People of a Strange 
Speech, and a Hard Language | whose words thou canst not under- 
stand, Surely had I sent | thee unto them, they would have heark- 
ened unto thee. | 
Boston: Printed by B. Green. | 1707. | jcb. 
Pp. 1-16. 16". The only perfect copy of the above known is in the library of 
the late J. Carter Brown, Providence, R. I., where it was shown me by the Hon. 
John R. Bartlett. There is a copy, minus the title-page, in the library of the N. Y. 
Hist. Society. Mr. Trumbull, who copied the title from Mr. Bartlett's catalogue 
of the Brown library, speaks of the work as follows : 
This book is named in the list of Cotton Mather's publications, which is ap- 
pended to his Life by Samuel Mather. It contains "sentences in relation to God, 
Jesus Christ, and the Trinity, in the Iroquois, Latin, English and Dutch lan- 
guages." 
Why this, the first book in the language of the Five Nations, was printed at 
Boston instead of New York — or by whom the translation was made — Mather does 
not inform us. It may, with much i>robability, be conjectured that the copy 
was furnished by the Rev. Thorowgood Moor, who was sent out by the Society 
for the Propagation of the Gospel, in 1704, to labor for the conversion of the 
Mohawks. He remained nearly a year iit Albany, and visited the Mohawks 
at their "Castle," but could not obtain their consent to his establishment of a 
mission among them. Before November, 1705, he returned to New York, and 
shortly afterwards went to Burlington, N. J., to supply the place of the Rev. 
John Talbot (another mission.ary of the Society). Here, Mr. Moor gave offence 
by refusing to admit the Lieutenant Governor (Ingoldsby) to the Lord's Supper, 
and was punished by imprisonment. Having contrived to escape, he fled to Bos- 
ton, and in November, 1707, took jiassagc for England, from JIarblehcad. The 
vessel, with all on board, was lost at sea (O'Callaghan's Note, in N. Y. Documents, 
iv. 1077). Mr. Talbot on his return from England had met Jlr. Moor in Boston 
and tried to induce him to go back to New York, but " poor Thorowgood said he 
had rather bo taken into France than into the Fort at New York." 
