ANCIENT HISTORY OF MEXICO. xix 



gent enquiries, by order of the viceroy of Mexico, D. 

 Martino Enriquez. By thefe manufcripts, P. Accofla 

 was principally directed in what he wrote concerning 

 Mexican antiquities, as he himfelf acknowledges. 



Jofeph D'Acofta, a mod celebrated Spanifli Jefuit, 

 well known in the literary world by his writings. This 

 great man, after having refided fome years in both the 

 Americas, and informed himfelf, from experienced peo- 

 ple, of the cuftoms of thofe nations, wrote in Spanifih the 

 Natural and Moral History of the Indians^ which was 

 printed firft in Seville, in 1589, reprinted afterwards in 

 Barcelona in 1591, and from thence circulated into vari- 

 ous languages of Europe. This work is well written, 

 particularly in regard to the phyfical obfervations on the 

 climate of America ; but, it is too confined, defedlive in 

 many articles, and there are fome miftakes concerning 

 ancient hiftory. 



Fernando Pimentel Ixtlilxochitl, fon of Coanacotzin^ 

 lafl king of Acolhuacan, and Antonio de Tobar Cano 

 Motezuma Ixtlilxochitl, a defcendant of the two royal 

 houfes of Mexico and Acolhuacan. Thefe two nobles, 

 at the requeft of the count of Benavente, and the viceroy 

 of Mexico D. Luis de Velafco, v/rote letters on the gene- 

 alogy of the kings of Acolhuacan, and other points re- 

 lative to the ancient hiftory of that kingdom, which are 

 preferved in the above mentioned college of the Jefuits. 



Antonio Pimentel Ixtlilxochitl, fon of D. Fernando 

 Pimentel. He wrote liiftorical Memoirs of the Kingdom 

 of Acolhuacan, by which Torquemada was afTifted ; and 

 from it we have taken the calculation mentioned in the 

 fourth book of our hiflory, of the annual expenfes incur- 

 red in the palace of the famous king Nezahualcojotl, 

 great-great-grandfather of that author. 



Taddeo 



