~ Short Notes. 
Antiquity of Malacca. 
In my Notes on Malay History in No. 53 of this Journal 
I said that Malacca is not mentioned in any known authority 
prior to the early years of the 15th century, with the possible 
exception of the old Chinese charts therein discussed. I find 
however in Colonel Gerini’s recent ‘monograph on Ptolemy’s 
Geography of Kastern Asia, pp. 531-2 that the ‘ Palatine Law ”’ 
of Siam entitled “ Kot Monthieraban,” enacted in A. D. 1360 
by the king who founded Ayuthia ten years earlier, mentions 
Malaka as one of the southern States then tributary to Siam, 
or claimed by him as such, at any rate. This is an important 
piece of evidence in support of the view that Malacca existed 
before the time of the fall of Singapore, which all the available 
evidence puts somewhere after A. D. 1377. But of course one 
would like to be sure that this Siamese law-code has not been 
‘ sub-edited ’’’ and revised since that date. It is however 
quite possible that Malacca was founded earlier than is tradi- 
tionally stated, but only rose to importance after the fall of 
Singapore. 
As for other names motioned! in the same context, they 
are Ujong Tanah, Malayu and Worawari. ‘The first offers no 
difficulty. Itis geographically explained by its name. As for the 
second, it is difficult to believe that Malayw was ever the name 
of a. state in the Malay Peninsula. It is not distinctive 
enough. It might mean Malayland anywhere. In the Naga- 
rakrétagama it distinctly means Sumatra. Probably the 
Siamese had no very definite information on the subject and 
did not realise that it could not be a state-name. Likely 
enough in this context it merely implies a claim over the 
Peninsula as a whole. The last name, Worawari, is a puzzle 
that no one has yet solved. Colonel Gerini offers various 
Jour, S. B, R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910, 
