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A HISTORY OF SIAM

accompanied his mother. He was given into the keeping
of Prince Tien.
In the meantime, Miin Rajasenha had been waiting
behind a tree for Nai Chan, who was riding to the corral
on an and accounted for him with a well-aimed
elephant,
bullet.
Only four lives were sacrificed in this liberation of
Siam from the rule of a low-born scoundrel, namely
the lives of the usurper and his brother, of the Princess,
and of her baby. We may spare a moment's pity
for the little child ; but doubtless K'un P'iren felt
that it was his to all that hateful
duty extirpate
brood.
Prince Tien was forth from his
brought monastery,
and on the of 1 was crowned as
igth January, I549,
of Siam, with the title of Maha
King Chakrap'at.
The new first act on the throne was
King's attaining
to shower honours and rewards on those
unprecedented
who had elevated him. In he bestowed
particular, upon
K'un P'iren the hand of his eldest daughter in marriage,
and conferred upon him the high title of Somdet Maha
T'ammaraja, with the position of Governor of P'itsanulok.
The rank and title of the former K'un P'iren were, in
almost those of a
fact, feudatory King.
King Tabeng Shwe T'i of Burma had not failed to
take due note of the violent which had taken
changes
in the of Siam. He felt that this was a
place Kingdom
good opportunity to add Siam to the number of his
vassal States. some frontier incident as
Taking petty
an excuse, iie therefore invaded Siam early in the year
at the head of a Siamese
1549, very powerful army.
the numbers of the of Burma's
history gives King
1
The day of the month, as well as that of the coronation of K'un Worawongsa,
is takenf rom Pinto. The year given by Pinto is 1546, which is certainly wrong.