The Duke of Norfolk faced the enormous Pilgrim host — perhaps 30,000 men — across the Don at Doncaster. He was hopelessly outnumbered. Rather than fight, Norfolk negotiated and offered a general pardon and promise of a parliament in the north. The Pilgrims dispersed. Henry VIII had no intention of keeping his promises; the subsequent small rebellions gave him the pretext to exact revenge. The confrontation was the moment when the Pilgrimage achieved its maximum power.
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