Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Montezuma Edition THE WORKS OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES VOL. III _The Montezuma Edition of William H. Prescott’s Works is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is_ No. 345 [Illustration] [Illustration: MONTEZUMA SWEARS ALLEGIANCE TO SPAIN Page 4] _Montezuma Edition_ HISTORY OF THE Conquest of Mexico BY WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT EDITED BY WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY AND COMPRISING THE NOTES OF THE EDITION BY JOHN FOSTER KIRK “Victrices aquilas alium laturus in orbem” LUCAN, Pharsalia, lib. v., v. 238 VOL. III PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright, 1843, by WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1871, by WILLIAM G. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. Copyright, 1904, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A. CONTENTS OF VOL. III BOOK IV RESIDENCE IN MEXICO (CONTINUED) CHAPTER V MONTEZUMA SWEARS ALLEGIANCE TO SPAIN--ROYAL TREASURES--THEIR DIVISION--CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN THE TEOCALLI--DISCONTENT OF THE AZTECS PAGE Montezuma convenes his Nobles 3 Swears Allegiance to Spain 4 His Distress 4 Its Effect on the Spaniards 5 Imperial Treasures 7 Splendid Ornaments 7 The Royal Fifth 9 Amount of the Treasure 9 Division of Spoil 11 Murmurs of the Soldiery 11 Cortés calms the Storm 12 Progress in Conversion 14 Cortés demands the Teocalli 15