ANCIENT HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



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in three volumes, folio ; a capy of which was in the 

 library of the count of Villaumbrofa, in Madrid, w^here 

 Pinelo faw it, as he afErms, in his Bibliotheca Occident ali : 

 two volumes of this hifliory the above mentioned author 

 faw in the celebrated archives of Simancas, which have 

 been the fepulchre of many precious manufcripts on 

 America. Two volumes alfo were in the library of J. 

 Kricio, at Arafterdam. 



Aguftino Davila, and Padillo, a noble, and ingenious 

 Dominican of Mexico, preacher to king Phillip III. royal 

 hifloriographer of America, and archbifliop of the iiland 

 of St. Domingo. Befides the Chronicle of the Domini- 

 cans of Mexico, printed in Madrid, in 1596, and the 

 Hiflory of New Spain and Florida, printed in Valladolid, 

 in 1632, he wrote the Ancient Hiflory of the Mexicans, 

 employing materials already collected by Fernando Du- 

 ran, a Dominican of Tezcuco ; but this work has not 

 been found. 



Do6]:or Cervantes, dean of the metropolitan church 

 of Mexico Herrera, the Chronicle-writer, praifes the Hif- 

 torical Memoirs of Mexico, written by this author 5 but 

 we have no other intelligence of him. 



Antonio de Saavedra Guzman, a noble Mexican, dur- 

 ing his voyage to Spain, wrote in twenty cantos, the Hif- 

 tory of the Conqueft of Mexico, and printed it in Madrid, 

 under the Spanifli title of El Peregrino Indiano, in 1599, 

 This work ought to be reckoned amongft the hiftories 

 of Mexico ; for it has nothing of poetry but the meafure* 



Pedro Guterrez de S. Chiara. Betancourt made ufe 

 of the manufcripts of this author in his Hiftory of Mexi- 

 co ; but we know nothing of the title or quality of the 

 work, nor of the country of the author, although wc 

 fufped he was an Indian. 



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