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A SHORT HISTORY OF PATANI 19

he spent a few years, returning to Johore in 1641.97 Three years later,
the queen of Patani, Raja Kuning, was said to have been married to
a younger brother of the Sultan of Johore.98 Before another year passed,
however, this prince was forced to flee from Patani, while his mother
and followers were massacred.99 The HP explains the incident in terms
of another adulterous affair, this time between the Queen’s husband and
a court singer, Dang Sirat.100 Whatever the cause, the conflict was
sufficiently serious to cause the Dutch Governor of Malacca, Jeremias
Van Vliet, to warn the Dutch Company of an impending war.101 Later
that year, in October 1644, the Company learned that a Patani envoy
had been sent to Johore to settle the differences between the two states,
and he was successful.102
What happened to Patani over the remainder of the century is quite
unclear. There are numerous references in Dutch and English sources
to a queen still reigning in Patani in the years between 1671 103 and 1686
or 1688,104 105 but no definite information for the interval between 1645
and 1671. What seems consistent in the sources are references to conflict
between Patani and Songkhla. In 1671,
The wars between the Queen of Patani and the King of Singora
continue still, notwithstanding this King [of Siam] hath sent his ambassa­
dors to both to mediate between them.100

It was the same conflict which still continued in 1678—79; Siam
assisting Ligor and Patani against the “King of Songkhla” who could
not be dislodged, and who gained from gun-running by English adven­
turers.106 Finally, probably in 1680, Songkhla seems to have been
defeated;107 for the French travellers visiting Siam between 1684 and
1689 made no mention of any such conflict continuing, though they do
mention the queen of Patani108 and they looked favourably on the
prospect of accepting the cession of Songkhla to France.109 It is highly

87 DR, 21 November 1640, pp. 85—86.
88 Winstedt, 1962, p. 139.
88 DR, 1644—45,6 June, p. 86.
100 HP text, pp. 59—65.
101 DR, 1644—45,6 June, p. 86.
182 Ibid., p. 92.
103 RR, II, 101.
101 Gervaise, 1690, pp. 316—17.
105 RR, II, 101.
100 RR, II, 167,177—81,184,189—90,200—1,214—15, 220—21,237—39,267.
107 RR, II, 267; of. Gervaise, 1690, p. 61.
108 Gervaise, 1690, pp. 316—17.
108 Cf. Hutchinson, 1968, pp. 36—38.