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Phra ʿAphaiphithak (Lư̄am ʿAphaiwong) informed the Board of the Wachirayān Royal Library for the Kingdom that he was organising a funeral for his wife, Nāng Sa-ngūan ʿAphaiphithak, and had a faithful intention to create a certain book for distribution thereat, thus requesting the Board to select a literary work for him. Having found a work titled Chronicle of the City of Phra Tabǭng, which I considered to be suitable for his purpose, I had it published as A Collection of Chronicles, Volume 16.

Both parts of the Chronicle of the City of Phra Tabǭng herein published were created by Čhāophrayā Khathāthǭnthǭranin (Yīa), the paternal grandfather of Phra ʿAphaiphithak himself. Regarding the first part, when Phrayā ʿAphaiphūbet (Nǭng) died in the reign of King Rama IV and Čhāophrayā Khathāthǭn, then holding the title of Phrayā Khathāthǭn, came in for an audience with the king, the king ordered Phra Rātchasēnā to inquire him about the genealogy of the governors general of Phra Tabǭng City since olden times. Čhāophrayā Khathathǭn then dictated it to Phra Rātchasēnā for presentation to the king in the Year of the Monkey, 2403 BE. As regards the other part, it was written in the reign of King Rama V when Čhāophrayā Khathāthǭn had already become the governor general of that city. At that time, His Majesty King Čhunlačhǭmklāo Čhāoyūhūa was collecting a variety of chronicles—many of which, such as the Chronicle of the City of Lūang Phra Bāng, had already been published as part of A Collection of Chronicles—and Phrayā Rātchasēnā was required by a governmental duty to go out to the city of Phra Tabǭng and was, seemingly, charged by the king with finding a chronicle of the city of Phra Tabǭng for him also. Thus, it appears that Čhāophrayā Khathāthǭn wrote