20. ** Gaveta.’’ 
By Witu1am Irvine, 
In Father Hosten’s article on ‘‘ the Marsden MSS. in the 
British Museum,’ Journal, A.S.B., Vol. VI, No. 8, 1910, 
pp. 437 to 461, Mr. Philipps remarks (p. 44 5) that on the 
documents we have sometimes the word Gaveta, and Father 
Hosten’s note (3) adds: ‘‘a drawer, in reference to the 
ept.”” f thi 
pa aaa can made more definite by a reference to 
p. vi in the Tekeodasticn to F. C. Danver’s ‘‘ Report on the 
Portuguese Records...., 1892.’ ‘‘ The Gavetas Antiqas (old 
‘* drawers) is a miscellaneous collection of 195 bundles.. 
‘* They were originally kept in 20 old drawers in the Archivo 
‘*da Torre do Tombo.’’ The documents in the Marsden MSS. 
which are marked Gaveta possibly belonged originally to the 
same collection as the Gavetas Antigas, now in Lisbon. 
other point in the article may be cleared up. On 
p. 454 Mr. Beveridge, referring to a mention of Sir Thomas 
Roe by Father Botelho, 8.J., suggests that ‘it might hint 
‘to some MSS. of Roe which have disappeared.’’ At Mr. 
Beveridge’s instance I consulted the Portuguese version (the 
original text) and found the Father spoke there of ‘a 
little book ’’ and called it a ‘‘ Commentario.”” On submitting 
the matter to one W. Foster, he recognized at once that the 
reference was to J. deLaet’s ‘* Commentarius,’ published 
in 1631. The fall title is “‘ De Imperio Magni Mogolis, sive 
‘* India Vera, Commentarius, e variis auctoribus congestus,’’ 
Leiden, Elzevir Press, 1631. Among the various authors used 
(Preface, p. 4) was “Thomas Roeus, Eques.’ 
