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A SHORT HISTORY OF PATANI 17

the king of Siam did not have the right to wear the crown and that he
has killed the true kings and their heirs 76
which of course was absolutely true of Prasat Thqng. Patani’s rebellious­
ness was one of the grounds on which this man succeeded in persuading
the head of the royal Japanese bodyguard, Qkya Senaphimuk (Yamada
Nagamasa), to accept appointment as the governor of Nakhqn Si Tham-
marat, where he arrived late in 1629.77 About nine months later,78 in
mid-summer of 1630, Patani attacked Phatthalung and Nakhqn Si
Thammarat. Although the attack was repulsed, Yamada was wounded
and died of a poisoned bandage placed on his wound by the brother of
the governor whom he had replaced.79
The king of Siam in 1631 intended to punish Patani, “which failed
to recognise the Siamese supremacy, relying on Portuguese assistance,” 80
but late in 1631 he had to employ his forces in fighting Cambodia,
Burma, and the Japanese community in Ayudhya which had taken up
arms against him.81 By 1632, he was completely occupied with these
troubles. Dutch ships calling at Patani late that year found the Queen
unwilling to subdue her hostility to the Thai king, “whom she calls an
usurper of the Crownland, a rascal, murderer, and traitor”,82 and as
late as the beginning of 1633, Yamada’s son still was in Nakhqn Si
Thammarat, having been promised 3,000 men from Patani to enable
him to continue his own rebellion.83 Retribution, however, was coming:
Nakhgn Si Thammarat was taken early in 1633 by a force of 10,000 men
sent from the capital,84 * while the king worked to gain Dutch naval aid
for the expedition against Patani planned for March, 1634.85 Gathering
forces from a subdued Nakhqn Si Thammarat, from Tenasserim, Kedah,
and Phatthalung, and from various foreigners living in Siam, to add to
the royal forces of some 30,000 troops,86 the king sent them to attack
Patani in May of 1634, without, however, the Dutch squadron, which
arrived too late to be of any assistance.87 Meanwhile, Patani had

70 Van Vliet, 1910, p. 37.
77 Van Vliet, 1958, pp. xxvi—xxvii.
78 Van Vliet, 1958, p. xxviii.
78 Van Vliet, 1938, pp. 139,194.
80 DR, 5 Dec. 1631.
® DR, 11—30 Dec. 1631.
82 DR, 26 Nov. 1632.
83 Van Vliet, 1938, p. 217.
84 Van Vliet, 1938, p. 143; DR, 9 March 1633.
83 DR, 16 December 1633.
80 DR, 2 January 1634.
87 Van Vliet, 1910, pp. 37—40; Van Vliet, 1938, pp. 148-^19; DR, 9 Nov. 1634.