CHAPTER VIII REIGN o KING KEo FA, USURPATION OF K'UN WORAWONGSA AND REIGN OF KING MAHA CHAKRAPAT AND KING MAHIN
KING PRAJAr appears to have possessed no wife ranking as Queen. The Princess whom Pinto accuses of poisoning him held the title of Tao Sri Suda Chan, a style reserved of Sakdi Na for one of the four senior non- Royal Consorts of a King. By this lady King Prajai had two sons, Prince Keo Fa born about I and Prince Sri Sin, born about 154I It is clear what arrangements, if any, were made not by King Prajai as to appointing a Regent. It would have been most unusual to nominate a female for that position, and King rajai had a younger half-brother, Prince Tien Raja who would have been the most natural person to appoint. However this may be, we find, not long after the accession of the young King Keo that the conduct of affairs was in the hands of his mother, and that Prince Tien had retired to the shelter of a monastery.
A HISTOR r OF SIAM King Prajai had not been long dead when the Princess Regent fell passionately in love with a young man name P'an Sri But T'ep, who held a petty official appointment. He was nothing loath to respond to her amorous advances, and ere long found himself transferred to a post in the palace, with the title of K'un Jinarat. As a result of this intrigue, the Princess Regent gave birth to a daughter, and the infatuated woman, finding further concealment impossible, determined to put a bold face upon the matter by making her lover Regent. It so happened that certain disturbances occurred at this time in the northern provinces of the Kingdom. The Princess Regent took advantage of this to obtain the consent of her Ministers to raise a considerable y of troops for the purpose, as she pretended, of protecting the person of the young King. K'un Jinarat was entrusted with the duty of enlisting the troops. He filled the capital with troops officered by men in whom he thought he could trust to acquiesce in the projected plot The next step was to remove dangerous opponents P'ya Maha Sena, an aged nobleman, who was known to disapprove of the Princess Regent's proceedings, was treacherously stabbed in the back, and others shared a similar fate. Pinto, with his usual exaggeration, asserts that hardly a nobleman was left alive. Having cleared her Council of all but a few subservient reptiles, the Princess obtained their consent to the appointment of K'un inarat as Regent during the J minority of King Keo Fa, with the title of K'un Worawongsa. The young King was now over thirteen years of age, quite old enough to understand and disapprove of his mother's conduct. We may easily suppose that he showed
A HISTORr OF SIAM TIO his resentment in one way or another K'un Worawongsa therefore decided to make away with him. The exact manner of his death is uncertain. he earliest account merely says that something happened to him Later histories say that he was executed The probability is that he was poisoned, as stated by Pinto. Certain it is that before the end of the year is48 the short reign and the short life of this unfortunate little King both came to a sudden end. On November 11th, 1548, K'un Worawongsa was publicly crowned as King of Siam, and his brother, Nai Chan, was appointed Uparat. It seems extraordinary that anyone could have imagined that the nobility and people of Siam would tamely submit to this audacious usurpation of the throne by a worthless ruffian, whose sole claim to distinction was that he had attracted the eye of an abandoned woman As may easily be supposed, a conspiracy was at once hatched against him. The ringleader was one K'un Piren This young man had royal blood in his veins, his mother being a relative of King Prajai, and his father a descendant of the Kings of Suk'ot'ai Priren eld a secret meeting with three of his friends. They determined to kill the usurper and to throne Prince Tien, who, as we have place on the taken the wise step of donning the yellow robe when saw the direction in which events were tending after his brother's death. Having ascertained that Prince T'ien
to assume the crown if all went well, the four conspirators next sought for a supernatural omen. They went at dead of night to a temple, and there lighted two candles, one representing the usurper and the other Prince T'ien. They made a vow that if Prince Tien's candle went out first, they would abandon their enterprise. It so happened that K'un Worawongsa's candle was mysteriously extinguished when burning its brightest This was taken as a sign of Divine approval, and the conspirators determined to proceed with their design. Early in January, 1519, a very large elephant was observed near Lopburi. un Worawongsa ordered that it should be driven into a corral, and announced his intention of proceeding by boat to Lopburi on January 13th to see the animal caught.
บท VIII สมัย o คิงษ FA, USURPATION ของ K'UN WORAWONGSA และรัชสมัยของพระมหา CHAKRAPAT และเสียงคิง PRAJAr คิงจะ ได้ครอบครองภรรยาไม่จัดเป็นราชินี เจ้าหญิงที่ Pinto โทษของพิษเขาขึ้นชื่อเรื่องของเต่าศรีสุดาจัน สไตล์สงวนไว้ของศักดิ์นาสำหรับของสี่อาวุโสไม่ใช่ - ราชพระกษัตริย์ โดยเลดี้นี้ คิง Prajai มีบุตรชายสองคน Keo Fa เจ้าเกิดเกี่ยวกับฉันและบาปของเจ้าศรี เกิดเกี่ยวกับ 154I ก็ล้างเตรียมอะไร ถ้ามี ทำไม่ โดยกษัตริย์ Prajai เป็นการแต่งตั้งเป็นรีเจนท์ มันจะได้แหล่งเสนอหญิงในตำแหน่ง และ rajai คิงมี half-brother อายุ ราชา Tien เจ้าที่จะได้เป็นธรรมชาติที่สุดผู้แต่งตั้ง อย่างไรก็ตาม อาจ พบ ไม่นานหลังจากการภาคยานุวัติของ Keo กษัตริย์หนุ่มที่ดำเนินกิจการอยู่ในมือของแม่ของเขา และที่ Tien เจ้าชายได้ออกมามูลนิธิของวัดA HISTOR r OF SIAM King Prajai had not been long dead when the Princess Regent fell passionately in love with a young man name P'an Sri But T'ep, who held a petty official appointment. He was nothing loath to respond to her amorous advances, and ere long found himself transferred to a post in the palace, with the title of K'un Jinarat. As a result of this intrigue, the Princess Regent gave birth to a daughter, and the infatuated woman, finding further concealment impossible, determined to put a bold face upon the matter by making her lover Regent. It so happened that certain disturbances occurred at this time in the northern provinces of the Kingdom. The Princess Regent took advantage of this to obtain the consent of her Ministers to raise a considerable y of troops for the purpose, as she pretended, of protecting the person of the young King. K'un Jinarat was entrusted with the duty of enlisting the troops. He filled the capital with troops officered by men in whom he thought he could trust to acquiesce in the projected plot The next step was to remove dangerous opponents P'ya Maha Sena, an aged nobleman, who was known to disapprove of the Princess Regent's proceedings, was treacherously stabbed in the back, and others shared a similar fate. Pinto, with his usual exaggeration, asserts that hardly a nobleman was left alive. Having cleared her Council of all but a few subservient reptiles, the Princess obtained their consent to the appointment of K'un inarat as Regent during the J minority of King Keo Fa, with the title of K'un Worawongsa. The young King was now over thirteen years of age, quite old enough to understand and disapprove of his mother's conduct. We may easily suppose that he showedA HISTORr OF SIAM TIO his resentment in one way or another K'un Worawongsa therefore decided to make away with him. The exact manner of his death is uncertain. he earliest account merely says that something happened to him Later histories say that he was executed The probability is that he was poisoned, as stated by Pinto. Certain it is that before the end of the year is48 the short reign and the short life of this unfortunate little King both came to a sudden end. On November 11th, 1548, K'un Worawongsa was publicly crowned as King of Siam, and his brother, Nai Chan, was appointed Uparat. It seems extraordinary that anyone could have imagined that the nobility and people of Siam would tamely submit to this audacious usurpation of the throne by a worthless ruffian, whose sole claim to distinction was that he had attracted the eye of an abandoned woman As may easily be supposed, a conspiracy was at once hatched against him. The ringleader was one K'un Piren This young man had royal blood in his veins, his mother being a relative of King Prajai, and his father a descendant of the Kings of Suk'ot'ai Priren eld a secret meeting with three of his friends. They determined to kill the usurper and to throne Prince Tien, who, as we have place on the taken the wise step of donning the yellow robe when saw the direction in which events were tending after his brother's death. Having ascertained that Prince T'iento assume the crown if all went well, the four conspirators next sought for a supernatural omen. They went at dead of night to a temple, and there lighted two candles, one representing the usurper and the other Prince T'ien. They made a vow that if Prince Tien's candle went out first, they would abandon their enterprise. It so happened that K'un Worawongsa's candle was mysteriously extinguished when burning its brightest This was taken as a sign of Divine approval, and the conspirators determined to proceed with their design. Early in January, 1519, a very large elephant was observed near Lopburi. un Worawongsa ordered that it should be driven into a corral, and announced his intention of proceeding by boat to Lopburi on January 13th to see the animal caught.
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