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It must have been approximately six years ago when entering one day in the house of an Indian called Francisco Gualpuyohualcal, a master of painters, I saw in his power a book with parchment covers. When I asked him what it was, he showed it to me in secret and told me that he was making it by command of Your Lordship. In it he was going to depict all the land since the foundation of this city of Mexico and all the lords that had ruled it until the arrival of the Spaniards, and the battles and clashes that they had, and the conquest of this great city, and all the provinces that it ruled and everything that was her subject, and the division of the peoples and provinces that Moctezuma did in favor of the main lords of this city, and of the tribute that each one of the encomienda-owners paid to him from the towns that he had, and the design of each one of these divisions, and how he designed the towns and provinces for this purpose, and whence came these new services, both personal and domestic, and it was not something that the Spaniards enforced once again and, after this, the division that the Marques del Valle did of said peoples and provinces and all of those who ruled.