The Chronicles of the Early Seventeenth Century

During the first half of the sixteenth century, the chroniclers of the Indies, those true chroniclers who were contemporaries of the conquest, wrote from personal acquaintance with the events which they were relating, as direct or indirect witnesses, relying upon their own experiences or upon the stories and versions of the other participants with whom they lived or whom their informers knew. But during the period which extends from the later years of the sixteenth century into the first decades of the seventeenth, those whom we would call the later chroniclers found themselves separated from the happenings which they were relating. For this reason they had to make use of different means. Further, this obliged them to depend on what their colleagues produced. They made use equally of the unpublished manuscripts of earlier historians as well as of works which were appearing at that time, either to follow them or to contradict them. From this arose the polemic atmosphere in which they had to work

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