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an all the conditions which
ignominious treaty accepting
saw fit to These included the surrender of
they impose.
four prominent officials who had rendered themselves
obnoxious to the Japanese, the grant of various residential
and commercial and the to the insur-
privileges, delivery
of some of the chief as for the
gents priests security per-
formance of the King's promises. The unfortunate
officials, on being surrendered to the Japanese, were
massacred.
immediately
The then sacked the town of and
Japanese Ayut'ia,
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so departed with great treasure, after much violence." 1
They proceeded to P'etchaburi, where their leader set
himself up almost like an independent King.
The confusion into which the Kingdom had been
thrown by the excesses of the Japanese was further

aggravated by an invasion of the King of Luang P'rabang,
P'ra The advanced as
Wongsa. Luang P'rabang army
far as their ostensible to the
Lopburi, object being expel
Japanese. King Songt'am was not to be imposed upon
by this pretext. He managed to collect a large army, and
first attacked the Japanese at P'etchaburi, driving them
out of that He on
stronghold. then, April 5th, 1612,
battle to the forces and defeated
gave Luang P'rabang
them. The whole Luang P'rabang army fled in disorder,
and King Wongsa himself narrowly escaped capture.
He was forced to abandon his which fell into
elephant,
the hands of the Siamese, but he managed to flee on
horseback.
" "
It would that the did not
appear Just King
the which he had
repudiate entirely promises made,
under duress, to the were not all ex-
Japanese. They
from the and later in this we find
pelled Kingdom, reign
that a Japanese body-guard was still employed in the
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Floris.
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