[508] Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 208.

[509] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 355-6; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., p. 135; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 128-9.

[510] Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 200.

[511] Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. ccxv., ccxii.; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., pp. 304, 313; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., p. 135; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 423; Zurita, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. i., pp. 101-2. Torquemada says the unjust judge was warned twice, and shaved at the third offense. Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 356. See also Id., p. 385.

[512] Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcix., p. 136.

[513] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 165.

[514] Torquemada translates tlacatecatl, Captain General, (Capitan General). We have already seen that it was the title of the presiding judge of the second Mexican court of justice, but it was probably in this case a military title, both because military promotion would be more likely to be conferred upon a renowned warrior than a judgeship, and because the prince is spoken of as a young man, while only men of mature years and great experience were entrusted with the higher judicial offices.

[515] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 189-90.

[516] Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., p. 146.

[517] These names are spelled tlelpiloia and quahucalco by Las Casas, and teïlpiloyan and quauhcalli, by Brasseur de Bourbourg.