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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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ll desi‘-'Fa“rge:lt’ifaw plainlynow‘ that thefe Propo-l
fals were nothing but a meet Contrivance, and like fo ma-
ny Snareslthat they. hadlaidrto catch him; which he was
fully con.vinc’d'of, :in aixgerylitttle‘ tii'i‘1e;’afte‘rwards,'as well
by the 'dillin&.Informatio‘n he receiV’d from feveral OF his
Friends,’ that by Opra Pz‘tracl2ard’s exprefs Order,had leave
to make him a Villtl, as by Letters that came to him from‘
his Ollicers ; And began now to conhder with lrimielf;
what he mull do to get out of the Danger that his good
Nature and Fidelity to the King had fo unluckily brought
‘him into 3 -and the belt Expedient he-could think of, was
, to fend this Anfwer to Opra Pitratlzard :
mt tl1e‘K.l'ng of France, In: zmyzer ; Imam: featjaa to
. ferve tlye King of SI A M , and that be WM now ready to
0561:1123‘ Conzinandr: But tlyat be tlzonglzt it Iyiglyly ne-
cefjarj to go liimfalf in perfon to Bancock, to bring the S01.
dier: wit?) lzint, in regard that ‘tl1e Ojficers tlzat commarzdedazz
I112; Alzfence, would not quit H16. Fortrcfs upon it lrare Let-
ter. ‘
T. :1‘his,feem’d fo reafonable, and to-carry fo much proba-
b1hty' with it,‘ that he pprefently ,0btain’d leave to return .to
. the Fort”; but on condition to leave ‘his two Sons that came
aIong7with him, as Hofiages for the performance of his
prornife; But before he left Loam, he was much prefs’d
by the Oprap totwrite. to Monfieur a’e Brabam, and fain wduld‘.
.. he have been, excufed from complying with him in it:
Ayndltold him, Tlzat tmlefs be ijent an Ojfcer of Iii! WW "0
carry tlze Letter, it would fignxfe nothing , nor 6:: re-
garded.
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