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 extraordinary torture, to force him to discover and declare who were his accomplices in the management of the intrigue for making the King a Christian and subjecting the Kingdom to the French Power, and when he had continued him several hours in the torture, he ordered the King's adopted Son to be brought to the palace and caused his head to be cut off immediately and a string to be run through it, and then to be hung about Monsieur Constance his neck in the manner of European cravate.

"This tragedy was acted on the 28th of May, the following 29th and 30th, Monsieur Constance was again applied to the torture in the cruellest manner that could be devised having the young prince's head always hanging his breast night and day. Thus they continued to torment him till the 4th of June till he expired under the violence of the torture."

In the history of Constance by Le Père d' Orleans it is said that he was executed on the 5th June, 1688 at the Thlee Poussonne.

With the exception of Faulcon none of the French who took part in the Revolution are mentioned in the Phongsavadan, naturally so as the Phongsavadan is what its name Vararája Vaṁsávatára implies chronicles of the Royal Race.

Reference to the Frenchmen implicated can be found in Lanier, Etude Historique sur les Relations de la France et du Royaume de Siam de 1662–1703 (Extrait des Memoirés de la Société des Sciences Morales et des Arts de Seine et Oise, tome XIII, Année 1883: further in John Anderson, M. D., English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century (Trübner's Oriental Series, London 1890).

4.The daughter of King Narayana held the title of Krom Hluang Yodhadeb. She was raised on the accession of Phra Phetraja to the rank of Queen to the left.

Phra Pié (Piya) was the son of Khun Traisiddhi Sak, an inhabitant of Ban Këng. He was brought up in the Royal