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onerous. Prince Ramesuen, P'ya Chakri and P'ya
Sunt'orn Songk'ram, the leaders of the war party, were
to be delivered up as hostages, an annual tribute of thirty
and three hundred catties of silver was to be
elephants
sent to Burma, and the Burmese were to be the
granted
to collect and retain the customs duties of the
right port
of Mergui then the chief emporium of foreign trade.
In addition to this, four white elephants were to be
handed over, instead of the two originally demanded. *
It is that the terms have been
possible imposed might
even harsher, but for the fact that the tidings of a rebellion
at home caused Bhureng Noung to be desirous of return-
to Burma as soon as an of
ing possible. Leaving army
in he hurried back of
occupation Siam, by way
Kamp'engp'et.
Hardly had the King of Burma left Ayut'ia when a
serious rebellion broke out, led by the Rajah of Patani.
The Rajah had raised an army, supported by a fleet of
two hundred boats, to fight the Burmese. Finding
that he had arrived too late, and observing that the King
of Siam was for he
very ill-prepared resistance, attempted
to seize the throne. King Chakrap'at, for the second
time in his fled from his in a The
reign, palace panic.
rebellion was, however, successfully suppressed.
Some time before the second Burmese invasion, King
of who had then
Jai Jett'a, Luang P'rabang, recently
established a new at Satan-
capital Wiengchan (Sri
sent to ask for the hand of Princess
akonahut), T'ep
Krasatri, one of the daughters of King Chakrap'at and
the warrior The Siamese
Queen Suriyot'ai. King agreed
to this he had one of his
marriage, although already given
1
Burmese history relates that King Chakrap'at himself, as well as Prince
Ramesuen, was taken to Burma as a hostage. Prince Damrong has cited very
strong rcabons for believing this to be incorrect. The truth can never now be
known for certain.