xoloto.

Headword: 
xoloto.
Principal English Translation: 

a little servant, a page boy (see Molina); perhaps also some kind of trade good (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

xoloto. pajezillo, o criadillo. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Two witnesses said that the man [who had a business in dry goods] also dealt in xolotos de indias or in xolotos. The way it occurs in the testimonies makes it seem like they are referring to a product, a dry good for transport.... But I don't think the people in this case were referring to humans as products, though I suppose it is possible that they meant the guy was trafficking in human chattel. But it doesn't fit the context of the testimonies." (1573; Tuxpan, Jalisco)
AGN, Inquisición, vol. 116, exp. 2. Personal communication, Martin Nesvig.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites