Note 446 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)
Reading edition
E sendo eu moço servindo a El Rey D. João na guardaroupa (Dec. IV. iii. 8). In Dec. VII. viii. 1 he speaks of having served João III for two years as moço da camara (1555-7). In the same passage he embarks for India in 1559 aged fifteen. In Dec. VII. ix. 12 (1783 ed. p. 396) he is eighteen (April 1560).