The Pilgrim leaders met at Pontefract Castle in early December 1536 to draft their formal demands. The resulting Pontefract Articles — twenty-four in number — went far beyond mere religious conservatism to demand parliamentary approval of church policy, restoration of papal authority, repeal of the Statute of Uses, and much more. The breadth of the demands showed the Pilgrimage was a national constitutional crisis, not merely a northern religious protest. Henry VIII was forced to offer a general pardon and negotiate.
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