A large number of authors treating of Chiapas have already been noticed in regard to Yucatan, and in such cases I merely give the author's name, without the title or any other reference to his works, except when there are special reasons for it.
Writers of the Sixteenth Century.
Diego de Godoy. "Relacion á Hernando Cortez, en que trata del Descubrimiento de diversas Ciudades i Provincias, i Guerra que tuvo con los Indios, &c., de la Provincia de Chamula."—First incorporated in the "Historia general" of Oviedo y Valdés, again in Barcia's "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," and in "Historiadores primitivos de Indias" of Vedia.—French translation by Ternaux-Compans, in 1st, "Recueil de pièces concernant la Méxique, &c."—Also Italian in "Ramusio," Vol. III.
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo Y Valdés.
Hernan Cortéz.—"Carta quinta."
Francisco Lopez de Gomara.
Bernal Diez Del Castillo. (Eye-witness of the conquest of Chiapa.)
Bartolomé de Las Casas. (Especially the "Apologética historia.")
Gerónimo de Mendieta. (Incidental mention.)
In the 2d "Recueil de piecés concernant le Méxique," of Ternaux-Compans, there is a complaint or letter of an anonymous author against Las Casas, dated Chiapas.—I also refer to "Cartas de Indias," Vol. I., containing several letters of Las Casas himself.