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Daubeney began the attack with courage, and even with a contempt of the enemy which had almost proved fatal to him.
He rushed into the midst of them, and was taken prisoner; but soon after was released by his own troops.
After some resistance, the rebels were broken and put to flight.[*] * Polyd.Virg.p.
601. Lord Audley, Flammoc, and Joseph, their leaders, were taken, and all three executed.
The latter seemed even to exult in his end, and boasted, with a preposterous ambition, that he should make a figure in his tory. The rebels, being surrounded on every side by the king's troops, were almost all made prisoners; and immediately dismissed without further punishment: whether, that Henry was satisfied with the victims who had fallen in the field, and who amounted to near two thousand, or that he pitied the ignorance and simplicity of the multitude, or favored them on account of their inoffensive behavior; or was pleased that they had never, during their insurrection, disputed his title, and had shown no attachment to the house of York, the highest crime of which, in his eyes, they could have been guilty. The Scottish king was not idle during these commotions in England.
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