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N the 25th of June 1688, being upon Duty, and Commanding a Company of fifty Siamese Soldiers in the little Fort of Morgen, I was seized on by my own Men, and made Prisoner, and for four days together was fastened to a Stake, with Iron Chains about my Body, on my Hands and Feet.

On the 29th I was carried out to see if I could know and discover some French Men that had been killed during the vigorous Defence that Monsieur de Bruham made in the Fort, and whilst he was drawing off his Men out of it, and retiring into the Frigat, upon which he made his escape; for there were about thirteen dead Bodies lying upon the place. And when I had told them all that I thought proper for them to know upon that matter, the Mandarins that Commanded in the Army that besieged the Fort, gave orders to put me to the Torture, to force me to declare and make information, that I had often heard Monsieur de Bruham say, That his being and commanding at Morgen was altogether unknown to the King of Siam, and by the order of Monsieur Constance only, on purpose to make himself Master of the Countrey; and that Monsieur de Bruham expected several Ships with Men, Arms, and Ammunition from France, Rh