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after a severe engagement the Rebels took flight and Monmouth was taken though in disguise & finding all efforts vain he assumed courage from despair, and prepared himself for death with spirit, He was executed soon after--This Victory-- obtained by the King had it been managed with prudence would have tended much to increase his power and authority; but the cruelties which were perpetrated especcally by the directions of Dirke and Jefferies was the principle cause of his downfall The King was so elated with this tide of prosperity, that he began to undervalue even an English Parliament; he took notice, that he had employed a great many Catholic Officers, and that he had in their formes dispensed with the test act--and such violent aversion did this-- Parliament have to Opposition that it is probable had James used his dispensing power, without declaring it, no inqueries would have been made and time might have reconciled the Nation to there-- dangerous exercises of prerogative--but the daring invasion of the constitution called forth some remains of the English spirit--
