1553 Nican ypan xihuitl huala biRey don luis de belasco = 1553 Here in this year the viceroy don Luis de Velasco came
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 74–75.
1608...oc cepa BiRey mochiuh D. Luis De Velasco = 1608...Once again don Luis de Velasco became viceroy
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 174–175.
oquimomachiti yn viRey [on]pa moyetztica mexico (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
omochiuh BiRey arsoobisp mexico san agustin teopixqui ytoca don juo de payo = the archbishop of Mexico, an Augustinian friar named don Juan de Payo, became viceroy
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 112–113.
çanno ypan cahuitl yn omocueçoque mexico tla yn oquitlatique palasio quimictisnequi yn viRey = and at this same time the people in Mexico City rioted, when they burned the palace and wanted to kill the viceroy [additional notes] —I take it that “tla” here is for “tlaca —Perhaps “were on the point of killing the viceroy.” The famous insurrection of 1692 is chronologically misplaced here, coming before the eclipse of 1691.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 152–153.
Multiple sets of annals report the arrival of Antonio de Mendoza in various years, such as 1510, 1517, 1535, and 1537. They also spell "viceroy" (or virrey, in Spanish) a variety of ways: BiRei, Birrey, virrey, BinRey, and Virey. Also seen are bisoRey and visorrey. (SW)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, pp. 35–38. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart.