The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to readeLópez de Gómara, Francisco
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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade
López de Gómara, Francisco
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Nahuatl language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
A greater of golde, with hornes and heare, with a string of
beadestones aboute his necke, and a Flyeflappe in his hand, and a
little stone for his nauell.
A péece of golde, like the patent of a Challice, garnished with
stones.
A Skull of golde, with two hornes, and blacke heare.
Two and twenty earerings of golde.
Two and twenty péeces of an other fashion.
Foure bracelettes of golde very broade.
A payre of beades of golde, the stones hollowe, wyth a Frogge of
golde hanging at the same.
Another paire, with a Lyon of golde.
A great paire of earerings of golde.
Two little Eagles of golde hollowe.
A little Saltseller of golde.
Two earerings of golde with Turkie stones.
A coller to hang aboute a womans necke, of twelue péeces, with
four and twenty stones hanging thereat.
A great coller of golde.
Sixe little collers of golde thinne.
Seauen other collers of gold with stones.
Foure earerings of golden leafe.
Twentie fishinghookes of golde.
Twelue graines of gold, waying fiftie Duckets.
A headlace of gold.
Certaine thinne planches of gold.
A Potedge pot of gold.
An Idoll of golde hollowe.
Certaine thinne brouches of gold.
Nine beade stones of gold.
Two payre of gilt beades.
One payre of wodden beades guilt.
A little cuppe of golde, with eighte purple stones, and twentie
thrée stones of an other collour.
Foure belles of gold.
A little sauser of gold.
A little boxe of gold.
Certaine smal collers of gold of smal value.
A hollow apple of gold.
Fourtie hatchets of gold mixed with copper, valued in two thousand
fiue hundred Duckets.
A whole harneis or furniture for an armed man of gold thinne
beaten.
An other whole armour of wood with leaues of golde, garnished with
little blacke stones.
A certaine piece made like vnto a feather, of an hyde and gold
ioyntly wrought.
Foure pieces of armour of wood made for the knées, and couered
with golden leafe.
Two targets couered with feathers of many and fyne colours.
Diuerse other targets of gold and feathers.
A tuffe of feathers of sundry colours, with a little byrd in the
middest, very liuely.
A wing of gold and feathers.
Two flyflappes of feathers.
Two little chamberpottes of Allabaster, beset with many trimme
stones, and some fyne, & among them there was one esteemed at two
thousand Duckets.
Certaine beades of tinne.
Fiue paire of woodden beades rounde and couered wyth a leafe of
gold very thinne.
A hundred and thirty hollow bead stones of gold.
Many beades of woodde gilt.
A paire of Sissers of wood gilt.
Two gilt vissors.
A vissor of strange gesture of gold.
Foure vissors of wood guilt.
Foure dishes of wood couered with golden leafe.
A dogges head of gold beset with stones.
An other beastes head garnished with gold.
Fiue paire of rush shooes.
Thrée red hides.
Seuen rasors of flint stone, for to cut vp men that were
sacrifised.
Two painted dishes of wood with an Ewer.
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