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A41427	The English-American, his travail by sea and land, or, A new survey of the West-India's containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... : also, a new and exact discovery of the Spanish navigation to those parts ... : with a grammar, or some few rediments of the Indian tongue called Poconchi, or Pocoman / by the true and painfull endeavours of Thomas Gage ... 1648.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1648 (1648)	Wing G109; ESTC R22621	392,970	244

their shops of standings to the King as a custome and they were to be preserved and defended from theeves and robbers And for that purpose there went Serjeants or Officers up and down the market to espie out malefactors In the midst of this Market stood a house which was to bee seen throughout the Fayr and there did sit commonly twelve ancient men for Judges to dispatch law matters Their buying and selling was to change one ware for another one gave a hen for a bundle of Maiz others gave mantles for salt or money which was Cacao They had measure and strike for all kind of corne and other earthen measures for hony and oyle and such wines as they made of Palme-trees and other roots and trees And if any measure were falsified they punished the offenders and brake their measures This was the civility they had when they were Heathens for buying and selling And although they knew not the true God but worshipped Idols yet to their Idols and to the Divell they dedicated Temples and places of worship wherein they used those sacrifice which David speaks of in the 106. Ps. 37. saying They sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters unto Devills The Temple is called in the Mexican language Teucalli which is a compound word of Teutl which signifieth God and Calli which signifieth a house There were in Mexico many parish Churches with towers wherein were Chappels and Altars where the Images and Idols did stand All their Temples were of one fashion the like I beleeve was never seen nor heard of And therefore it shall be now sufficient to describe the chiefe and greatest Temple which was as their Cathedrall Church This Temple was square and did containe every way as much ground as a Crosse-bow can reach levell It was made of stone with four dores that abutted upon the three Cawseys and upon another part of the City that had no Cawsey but a fair street In the midst of this Quadern stood a mount of earth and stone square likewise and fifty fadome long every way built upward like unto a pyramide of Aegypt saving that the top was not sharpe but plain and flat and ten fadom square Upon the West side were steps up to the top in number a hundred and fourteen which being so many high and made of good stone did seeme a beautifull thing It was a strange sight to behold the Preists some going up and some downe with ceremonies or with men to be sacrificed Upon the top of this Temple were two great Altars a good space distant the one from the other and so nigh the edge or brimme of the wall that scarcely a man might go behind them at pleasure The one Altar stood on the right hand and the other on the left they were but of five foot high each of them had the back part made of stone painted with monstrous and foul figures The Chappell was fair and well wrought of Masons work and timber every Chappell had three lo●… one above another sustained upon pillars and with the height thereof it shewed like unto a faire tower and beautified ●…he City a●…arre off From thence a man might see all the City and Towns round about the lake which was undoubtedly a goodly prospect And because Cortez and his company should see the beauty thereof Montezuma himselfe to ma●…e the more ostentation of his greatnesse and the Majesty of his Court carried the first Spaniards thither and shewed them all the order of the Temple even from the foot to the top There was a certain plot or space for the Idoll Preists to celebrate their service without disturbance of any Their generall prayers were made toward the rising of the sunne upon each Altar stood a great Idoll Besides this tower which stood upon the Pyramide there were fourty towers great and small belonging to other little Temples which stood in the same circuite the which although they were of the same making yet their prospect was not West-ward but other waie●… because there should be a difference betwixt the great Temple and them Some of these Temples were bigger then others and every one of a severall God among the which there was one round Temple dedicated to the God of the ayre called Quecalcovatl for even as the ayre goeth round about the heaven●… even for that consideration they made his Temple round The entrance of that Temple had a dore made like unto the mouth of a Serpent and was painted with foule and divellish gestures with great teeth and gummes wroug●… which was a sight to fear those that should enter in thereat and especially the Christians unto whom it represented hell it selfe with that ugly face and monstrous ●…eeth There were other Teucallies in the City that had the ascending up by steps in three places and all these Temples had houses by themselves with all service belonging to them and Preists and particular Gods And from this manner of these Heath●… Temples and Altars made with steps wee may observe how like unto them is now the Church of Rome which as it confesseth that there never was a Church without a visible sacrifice and therefore teacheth that Christs body must be broken upon their Altars and distributed not only as a sacrament to the people but as a sacrifice in the Preists hands differing only that the sacrifices of Sheep and Oxen in the old law and these of the Heathens were bloody sacrifices but theirs of Christs body they call 〈◊〉 Sacrifici●…m an unbloody sacrifice so likewise in the buildings of their Churches with severall Towers and Altars and Chappels dedicated to severall Saints they seem to have taken from the very Heathens but especially in the many steps whereby they ascend up to their Altars they resemble these forgetting Gods words in Exod. 20. 26. saying Neither s●…lt thou goe up by steps unto mine Altar that thy nakednesse be not discovered thereon And lastly in their houses and cloisters joyning to their Churches for the service of them being full of idolatrous Preists and Fryers consecrated for their service they seem likewise to have borrowed that fancy of Convents Abbeys and Priories from the very Heathens who as presently I shall shew had neer joyning to this great Temple houses containing thousands of Preists with yeerly rents and revenues like those of Romes Abbeys and Cloisters At every dore of this great Temple of Mexico stood a large hall and goodly lodgings both high and low round about which houses were common Armories for the City The Heathens it seems had so much understanding as to know that the force and strength of a Towne City or Countrey is the Temple and therefore they placed there their storehouse of munition They had other darke houses full of Idols great and small wrought of sundry metal●… which were all bathed and washed with blood and did shew very blacke through their dayly sprinkling and a●…ing them with the same when any man was sacrificed yea and the walls

and Mutton for it and the Country Townes about is this Nine daies before Michaelmas every day Proclamation is made about the City for an Obligado or one that will bee bound to the City and Country for competent provision of Flesh meat upon forfeiture of such a summe of money to his Majesty if hee faile as shall bee agreed upon between him and the Court and to the Inhabitants of the City if hee fail in beef hee is to allow in Mutton so many pounds at the same rate as hee should have allowed beef If the Obligado faile in Mutton hee is to allow in Fowle flesh so many pounds and at the same rate as hee was to allow the Mutton and this with consideration of the family what competent allowance of flesh meat shall bee judged for a day or the dayes that the Obligado shall fail Besides this the Proclamation is made for whom offers most to his Majesty for one yeers Obligation So that sometimes it happeneth that the eight daies severall men come into the Court offering more and more till upon the ninth day and last Proclamation the Office is setled for one yeere upon him that hath offered most unto his Majesty Thus many Butchers are not allowed but one onely Obligado who also is abridged to so many pound for so much mony so that if any other besides him offer to kill or sell he may follow an action and the Court against him Thus the Obligado who commonly is a monied man buyeth by the hundred or by the thousand as for the present hee findeth the expence of the City without hee bee himself such a Grazier as hath Cattell enough of his owne Though Mutton bee not so plentifull as is Beef yet there never wants from the Valley of Mixco Pinola Petapa and Amatitlan and the Marsh and other places In the Valley forenamed I lived and was well acquainted with one Alonso Capata who had constantly going in the Valley four thousand sheep Guatemala therefore is so well stored with good provision plentifull and heap that it is hard to finde in it a begger for with halfe a Riall the poorest may buy beef for a weeke and with a few Cacao's they may have bread of Indian Maiz if not of Spanish Wheat This City may consist of about five thousand families besides a Suburb of Indians called el Barrio de Sto. Domingo where may bee two hundred families more The best part of the City is that which joyneth to this Suburb of Indians and is called also el Barrio Santo de Domingo by reason of the Cloister of Saint Dominick which standeth in it Here are the richest and best shops of the City with the best buildings most of the houses being new and ately Here is also a dayly Tianguez as they call it or petty Market where some Indians all the day sit selling fruits Herbs and Cacao but at the foure in the afternoone this Market is filled for a matter of an houre where the Indian women meet to sell their Country slap which is dainties to the Criolians as Atolle Pinole scalded Plantins butter of the Cacao puddings made of Indian Maiz with a bit of Fowle or fresh Porke in them seasoned with much red biting Chile which they call Anacatamales The trading of the City is great for by Mules it partakes of the best commodities of Mexico Guaxaca and Chiapa and Southward of Nicaragua and Costarica By Sea it hath commerce with Peru by two Sea Ports and Havens the one called la Villa de la Trinidad the Village of the Trinity which lyeth Southward from it five and twenty leagues and by another called el Realejo which lyeth five or six and forty leagues from it It hath traffique with Spain by the North Sea from Golfo dulce lying threescore leagues from it It is not so rich as other Cities yet for the quantity of it it yeelds to none There were in my time five besides many other Merchants who were judged worth twenty thousand Duckats thirty thousand fifty thousand some few a hundred thousand who were judged of equall wealth and generally reported to bee worth each of them five hundred thousand Duckats the first was Thomas de Siliezer a Biscain born and Alcalde de Corte the Kings High Justice or chief Officer at Court the second was Antonio Iustiniano a Genovois born and one that bore often Offices in the City and had many Tenements and houses especially a great and rich Farme for corn and Wheat in the Valley of Mexico The third was Pedro de Lira born in Castilia the fourth and fifth Antonio Fernandez and Bartolome Nunnez both Portingals whereof the first in my time departed from Guatemala for some reasons which here I must conceale The other foure I left there the three of them living at that end of the City called Barrio de Santo Domingo or the street of St. Dominick whose houses and presence makes that street excell all the rest of the City and their wealth and trading were enough to denominate Guatemala a very rich City The Government of all the Country about and of all Honduras Soconusco Comayagua Nicaragua Costa Rica Vera Paz Cuchutepeques and Chiapa is subordinate unto the Chancery of Cuatemala for although every Governour over these severall Provinces is appointed by the King and Councell of Spain yet when they come to those parts to the enjoyment of their charge and execution office then their actions if unjust are weighed judged censured and condemned by the Court residing in the City This Court of Chancery consisteth of a President six Judges one Kings Attourney and two chief Justices of Court The President though hee have not the name and title of Viceroy as they of Mexico and Peru yet his power is as great and absolute as theirs His Pension from the King is but twelve thousands Duckats a yeer but besides this if he be covetous hee makes by bribes and trading twice as much more nay what shee list as was seen in the Count de la Gomera President of that City and Chancery for the space of fourteen yeers who departed in old age from Guatemala to Canaria where was his house and place of birth worth Millions of Duckats After him succeeded Don Iuan de Guzman formerly President of Santo Domingo who losing his Wife and Lady in the way lost also his former spirit and courage betaking himselfe wholly to his devotions contemning wealth and riches governing with love and mildnesse which made the rest of the Judges who were all for lucre soone weary him out of his office continuing in it but five yeers His successor whom I left there when I came away was Don Gonsalo de Paz y Lorencana who was promoted from the Presidency of Panama to that place and came into it with such a spirit of covetousnesse as the like had not been seen in any former President Hee forbad all gaming in private houses in the City which there is much used though