Translated, and published for the first time, from a copy of the original ms. written probably between 1560 and 1585. First published in Spanish in "Coleccion de documentos inéditos, relativos al descubrimiento conquista y colonizacion de las posesiones españolas en América," t. 2, 1864, p. [1]-126, under title: "Breve y sumaria relacion de los señores, y maneras y diferencias que habia de ellos en la Nueva España ..." The French and Spanish are taken from different copies, the text of the former being more extensive than that of the latter. A second Spanish edition was published in Joaquin García Icazbalceta's Nueva colección de documentos para la historia de México. t. 3, 1891, p. [71]-227.