(a loanword from Spanish)
among indigenous people, church steward, the highest of all indigenous church-related officials; also a term used for Spanish officials, who represent the government or a specific branch of the government in legal matters somewhat like a prosecuting attorney
fiscal = main steward of the church
Sometimes a distinction was made between fiscal mayor, chief fiscal, and fiscal teniente, deputy fiscal.
pixcal = prosecutor ("pixcal" is the usual spelling for fiscal in the Techialoyan genre; McAfee might not have realized that this could be a reference to an indigenous church steward)
[yn] licenciado maldonado viscal te su maddad yn nica tecuhctlatolloya = Licentiate Maldonado, His Majesty's prosecuting attorney here in the Royal Audiencia; and: yehoatl viscal huel yca imixtelolo = the prosecuting attorney had seen it [Mexico City (by Coyoacan writer?), 1557]
motlapixcatzitzivan yn officiales yoan in fiscal doctor maldonado = your stewards the royal officials and the prosecuting attorney Dr. Maldonado (Huejotzingo, 1560)
señor anton gomez Español vezino coyoacan yhuan yispantzinco señor don turibio fiscal vicente Ramirez balsar pz alguaziles yglesia margos feliciano Escriuo yglesia anton sanchez tepisqui apçolco Etc (Coyoacan, 1575)
yispan Señor Don turibio siluestre fiscal yglesia yhuan vicente Ramirez balthasar pz alguaziles yglesia (Coyoacan, 1575)
luis margos fiscal (Chiucnauhapan, Coyoacan, 1608)
ce fiscal ya otlamic ytequiuh .. ya otlamic notequiuh nifiscal (Jalostotitlan, Jalisco, 1611)
quimocuillico yn fiscal (location unclear, circa 1632)
topixcal (Huejotla, 1634)
juan cebastian fiscal (San Martín Hidalgo, Jalisco, 1653)
tonecuitlahuil sta yglesia fiscal ... Don Diego Juarez fiscal de la sta yglesia (S. Simón Pochtlan, Azcapotzalco, 1695)
yn aalCaltt horor por Sudad yhuatzin fiscal santa ygelcia ... y nehuatl Commo alCalde hordinario ... Dn Antto franco fiscal (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
fiscales de la Santa Yga fiscal Mayor Juan de leon fiscal Mexicano Leonardo Antonio Fiscal EECatepec (Metepec, 1795)
Jues biscal = juez fiscal [prosecuting attorney] (entry for 1567)
ton Juan Pelnatino nipixcal = don Juan Bernardino, fiscal (Zempoala, "1610", but probably Techialoyan -related)
nitlaCuilo nehuatli Do nicolas fco, fiscal mayor, satayglesia Acolma ypaxihuitl 1731 = Lo escribí yo, don Nicolás Francisco, fiscal mayor de la santa iglesia de Acolman en el año de 1731. (San Agustín Acolman, 1731)