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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



the pikemen to ten, and the others armed with fwords, 

 to forty thoufand in number. Xicotencatl, the younger, 

 made alfo an addrefs to his troops> after the example of 

 Cortes, in which he told them, that the next day, as had 

 already been intimated, they were to march with the 

 brave Spaniards againft the Mexicans, their inveterate 

 enemies 5 that although the Tlafcalan name was fuffi- 

 cient to intimidate all the nations of Anahuac, they mull: 

 exert themfelves to acquire new glory from their ac- 

 tions. 



Cortes, on his part, affembled the principal l$>rds of 

 the allied ftates, and exhorted them to conftant fidelity 

 to the Spaniards, exaggerating to them the advantages 

 they might hope for, from the ruin of their enemy, and 

 the evils they might dread, if ever from the fuggeftions 

 of the Mexicans, or the fear of war, or ficklenefs of 

 mind, they fhould violate their promifed faith. He then 

 publifhed a military proclamation for the conduct of his 

 troops, containing the following articles: 



i ft. No perfon mail blafpheme againft God, nor the 

 bleffed Virgin, nor againft the faints. 



2d. No perfon {hall quarrel with another, nor put his 

 hand to his fword nor any other weapon, to ftrike him. 



3d. No perfon fhall game with his arms, or his horfe, 

 or iron tools. 



4th. No perfon fliall force any woman, under pain of 

 death. 



5th. No perfon fhall take away the property of ano- 

 ther, nor punifti any Indian, unlefs he is his flave. 



6th. No perfon fhall make excurfions from the camp 

 without our permifEon. 



7th. No perfon fhall make any Indian prifoner, nor 

 plunder his houfe, without our permifEon. 



8th. 



