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Full Title
A Full and true relation of the great and wonderful revolution that hapned lately in the kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies:
Date Added
11 January 2014
Format
Book
Language
English
Publish Date
1690
Publisher
London : Printed for Randal Taylor
Source
McGarrity Books
Alternate Title
giving a particular account of the seizing and death of the late king, and of the setting up of a new one : as also of the putting to death of the king's only daughter, his adopted son who was a Christian, his two brothers, and of Monsieur Constance, his great minister of state, and favourer of the French : and of the expulsion of all the Jesuits, missionary priests, officers and soldiers of the French nation out of that kingdom, that endeavoured to bring it under the French domination : being the substance of several letters writ in Octob. 1688, and Feb. 1689 from Siam, and the coast of Cormandel
Topic
Thailand > History > To 1782.
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bio 4 21 ReZ;ztio;J.of the lategreaz‘ Revalutioiz in SIAM;
Leagues of Siamiyfo great a Detachment of. the Army
beforeand behind them,;to‘ hinder their getting.in'to'the
a Town; and making atvertue of neceflity, they put them-
afelves into a poifture of Defence, refolving; to fell their
Lives at as clear a rate as they‘ could; but fome P4rzi7dzz7‘iiI5
. "com'in'g.up to 'thern,told thernptheyi were in no ‘dangeraill Y3‘
gard they alTnr’d them,-they were come,not‘only tO‘dO them
no.l1arm:themfelves,but to prevent their receiving any from
othverst. and their bulinefs was to bring them back to Lemma
as the (King had ' expre'llyf!commanded :-them ’: The Frezzclz
Gentlemen i were foonovcrcomeby the power of F0 fine and
obliging Exprellions, and prelently .furrendredttheml"elves
‘into their hands ;‘ for to do otllerwileswas not pollible for
tl1cr'n,l -there being no proportion betwixt thetfewne% of
their nL’1.rnber,“and fo great a A Body zasrthey.-' had- tordifpute
with. .And the truth: on’t is, ':the"y::wer‘e‘-‘treated ‘.tl1e':ifirl’f
fday withltindnefs an"dcivility.enougl1‘.; but itrwas not f5
-the next, ‘for they'Hrip’d them.oFall,and ti’d them to Horfe-
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and thereflr had much ado to. outlive the Miferies and In-
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