At Pontefract Castle, Robert Aske met with Lord Darcy and Archbishop Lee to negotiate the rebels demands, producing the twenty-four articles of the Pilgrimage. The castle capitulated on 21 October 1536 without assault after Darcy ran short of provisions and support. The parley transformed Pontefract from a royal stronghold into the rebel headquarters and gave the rising its programmatic ideology.
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