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Show ACCOUNT OF THE WRITERS ON THE (!(the Lrnvs, Ufirgn, and Gujloms if the Mexr·cans: of the T'ributes ~hid t!Jry paid, &c. The original manufcript in folio, is prcferved 111 the. library of the college ofS t. Peter and St. Paul, of the Jefuits of M exico. Jtt·om this work, which is well written, fome confiderable part of what we have t1id on the fiune fubj a. is extraCted. )uan de Tobar, a moil: noble J ef(lit of Mexico. He wrote on the ancient hifl:ory of the kingdoms of Mexico, of Acolhuacan, and of Tlacopan, after having made diligent enqorrics, by order of the vi'Ceroy of Mexico, D. Martino Enriquez. By thefe manufcripts, P. Ac~ co(b was principally direCted in what he. wrote concerning Mexican antiquities, as he himfdf acknowkdgeS'. Joicph J)'·.Aicofta; a moll:· celebrated Spani{h · J efuit, , well known in the literary world by his writings. This great man, after h aving rcfided fome years in both the Americas, and informed himfdf, from experienced people, of the cuftoms of thofc nation s, wrote in Spaniih the Natural and Moral Hijlory of the Indiau.J, which was printed firfi in Seville, in 15 89, reprinted afterwards .in Barcelona in 1591, and from thence circulated into,vnrious · languages of E urope. This work is wclhvr itten, p:uticularly in regard to the phyfical obfcrvations on th<t climate of America; but, it is too confined, defective in many articles; and th re :tre fume n1ifl:.\.kcs concerning ,ancient hiftory~ Fernando P'imentel ' Ixtlilxochitl~ fon of Coanacotzziz, lafl: king of Acolhuac::tn , and Antonio de Tobar C 1no Motezuma Ixtlilxochitl · ' a defcendant of the two royal houfes of Mexico and Acolhu ac~m. T hefe two nobles, at the rcquefl: of the count of Benavente, and the viceroy of Mexico D. Luis de Velafco, wrote letters on the genealogy of the kings of Acolhuacan, and other points relative to the an ... . cien~ hiO:ory of that kingdom, which arc preferve:d in the above mentioned college of the Jefuits . . Antonio Pimentel J.xtlilxochitl, fon of D; Fernando Piment·el. Ilc. w r~,te llifl:orical Memoirs of the Kingdom of Acolbuacan , hy. wluch I orquemada was affificd ;. and from it we, have taken the calcu-. l:ltion .. ANCIENT HIS T 0 R Y 0 F ME X I C 0. lation mentioned in the fourth book of our hi!l:ory, of the annual expences incurred in the palace of the £·unous king Nezahualcojotl, greatgreat- grandfather of that author. Taddeo de N iza, a noble Indian of Tlafcala. He wrote in the year ·1548, by order of the viceroy of Mexico, the Hi!l:ory of the Conquefi, which was fubfcribed by thirty other noblei of Tlafcala. Gabriel d' Ayala, a noble Indian of Tezcuco. He wrote in the Mexican language Hi!l:orical Commentaries ; containing an account of all ~he affairs of the Mexicans from the year 1243 of the vulgar xra, unto I 562. ] uan Ventura Zapata e Mendoza, a noble of Tlafcala. H e wrote in the Mexican language the Chronicle of Tlafcala; containing all the events of that nation, from their arrival in the country of Anahuac, tO the year I 589. Pedro Ponce, a noble Indian, reCtor of Tzompahuacan. He wrote in Spanilh, An Account of the Gods and the Rites of Mexican Paganifm. The chiefs of Colhuacan. They wrote the Annals of the Kingdom of Colhuacan. A copy of this work was in the above mentioned library of the Jefuits . Chriiloval del Call:illo, a Mexican Meficc. H e wrote the 1-Iill:ory of the Travels of the Aztccas, or Mexicans, to the country of Anahuac; which manufcript was prefcrvcd in the libmry of the college of J efuits of Tepozotlan . Diego Mug noz Camargo, a noble Mefl:ec of Tlafcala. He wrote in Spaniih the Hifi:ory of the City and Republic of Tlafcala. Torquemada made ufe of this work, and there are copies of it both in Spain and Mexico. Fernando d'Alb:1 Ixtlilxochitl, a Tezcucan, and defcendant, in a right line from tl e k~ngs of Acolhuacan. This noble Indian ex .• Vor .. I. c tremely xvii |