Note 69 — Chapter IV · PALACES AND HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NAHUA KINGS.
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This custom of speaking through a secretary was adopted by the other Aztec monarchs as well as Montezuma, and was also imitated by many of the great tributary lords and governors of provinces who wished to make as much display of their rank and dignity as possible. See Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 184; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. ccxi.; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 205.