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 of them, proved as Unsuccessful, as the Artifices that were used to Trepan them to come to SIAM were ineffectual: For when so vast an Army had endeavoured all they could, during two Months close Siege, by frequent Attacks and Storming, to force their Entry into the place, and had been always beat off with great Loss, by the handful of French, who were not in all above Three hundred, he saw himself obliged, at last, to send to the General, and ask Conditions of Peace.

During this Siege, all the French who were at Siam and Louvo were made close Prisoners, and treated with the greatest extremity of Rigor and Severity, without consideration of Quality or Age. Nor could the Bishop of Metellopolis, who had lived long amongst them, and was the Apostolick Vicar in the greatest part of of the East-Indies, be exempted from his share of the common Calamity that fell upon his Profession and Countrey-Men: For when Opra Pitrachard saw he could not recover Bancock out the hands of the French by force, he caus'd the old Bishop to be sent for, and conducted to the Fort-and there to be strip'd and ti'd to a Gibbet, with a Halter about his Neck, and fastned at the place where the French Cannon were most levell'd, and did most execution, hoping that the sight of so moving a Spectacle, and the consideration they had of the Person of their Bishop, should prevail with them to moderate the fury of their Guns, intermit their Firing, and hearken to a Treaty of Peace.

All the French Jesuits and Missionary Priests that were any where in the Kingdom, were seiz'd, and carri'd Prisoners to Louvo, being Accused of Sedition and Treason against the Government; all their Goods, Furniture, and Effects were likewise seiz'd and confiscated. All