Petition of the Rulers of Amacatlan Mamepan, Soconusco, Mexico, to the King of Spain, 1562

This petition forms part of a larger group of documents in Nahuatl signed by representatives of native communities in Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico, directed to the king of Spain, Philip II, and now preserved in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville (AGI, Guatemala 52). The document was signed by the rulers of Amacatlan Mamepan, who present themselves astocalpol cotlahtohqueh pipiltin‘the rulers of ourcalpolli, the nobles’, and royal subjects. In general, the set of petitions from the area of Huehuetlan in Soconusco, to which the present document belongs, asks the sovereign to withdraw them from the authority of