religion,” and Norfolk promised that no default should be found in him, “in the suppression of the Abbeys and treatment of the traitors therein.”[80] There would have been no reason for the King to examine Norfolk if he had not made some unwelcome concession on the subject, which he repudiated “in the gallery” before the King. Secondly, there is Aske’s narrative drawn up for the King. In this account he described only his individual acts; as the progress of the negotiations must have been reported to the King by Norfolk, Aske says hardly anything about them[81]. His statements are (_a_) that on Thursday morning he proclaimed at the market cross at Pontefract “the said order (taken at Doncaster) and ... the knowledge of the King’s most liberal and free pardon.” The commons received the news joyfully. (_b_) After he had set out for Doncaster again the commons became dissatisfied and demanded to see the King’s pardon and also “that the abbots, new put in of houses suppressed, should not avoid their possession to (until) the parliament time,” and that the parliament must be at York. (_c_) When the news of this reached Doncaster, Aske, after consulting with Norfolk, went back to Pontefract and persuaded the commons “to abide the said order at Doncaster.”[82] He seems to have had a good deal of difficulty, for Marmaduke Nevill reported that the commons were so much excited that the gentlemen thought “we should be fain to divide, calling all them that were disposed to take the King’s most gracious pardon to come to a side.”[83] This may mean that they thought of putting the treaty to the vote. In the end on Friday morning all formally accepted the terms[84]. (_d_) The last business transacted by Norfolk on Friday was to “take order for the putting in of the King’s farmers.”[85] (_e_) After the conference Aske took part with Sir Ralph Ellerker and Sir Robert Constable in “the putting in of the King’s farmers into the abbeys of Haltemprice and Feriby.”[86]