Describe pictures

Describe pictures

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The picture no. 1 is a silver foil inscription from Chiang Mai province in Northern Thailand. It written in vernacular scripts and language (Thai Nithet script and Tai Yuan language). The content about in 1567, Queen Wisuttha Thewī of Chiang Mai (c. A.D. 1564 – 1578) ordered court officials to set up this silver foil to the Lawa and Thais people who lived in five villages and ordered them to serviced Wisutthārām monastery. The villagers were not pay for tax and do public works.    

The picture no. 2 is palm–leaves manuscript also from Chiang Mai and written in Thai Nithet scripts and Tai Yuan language. The content related to the silver foil inscription (picture no. 1). This manuscript talk about the event after the reign of Queen Wisuttha Thewī.In 1632, Fā Sutthō, King of Burma came to attack Chiang Mai and herded people included the villager who serviced Wisutthārām monastery to Burma. In the meantime, one of the villagers brought the Queen’s order (the silver foil) to the King of Burma and arked him to let them go because they were ordered from the Queen to survice the monastery. After he read it, he ordered to his court officials and soldiers to unhanded them back to Wisutthārām monastery.