Some of the gentlemen, however, went south with Norfolk. Marmaduke Nevill[107] asked the Duke’s leave before starting, and was told that no leave was required[108]. These gentlemen rode south in great spirits, telling everybody that they had obtained a pardon and a parliament, and that they had set up all the abbeys again in their country. In the parliament the pardon would be confirmed and the Act of Uses repealed, for younger brothers would not have it. Marmaduke Nevill visited the Abbot of St John’s at Colchester on Saturday 16 December. The justices of the peace were dining there, and one of them asked, “How do the traitors of the north?” Nevill retorted with a catch phrase of the time, “No traitors, for if ye call us traitors, we will call you heretics.” He said that the answer of the King’s Council had been known at Pontefract before Norfolk declared it at Doncaster, and that all the south had been with the plain fellows of the north, but dared not speak their minds[109]. His boasting was quickly put to silence. The justices reported his words to Cromwell and on Twelfth Day [6 January 1536–7] he was arrested by the Earl of Oxford and thrown into the Tower[110]. His name is still to be seen there, the first of many such sorrowful memorials which were to find place on its walls in the next few months, but his fate is unknown. On receiving a full account of the conference at Doncaster, the King’s first care was to conceal the fact that he had received a check. A report spread that the northern men had submitted unconditionally[111]. On Friday 22 December the King, accompanied by the Queen and the Imperial Ambassador, made a magnificent progress through London to Greenwich, where he intended to keep a particularly festive Christmas. “Such a sight has not been seen since the Emperor was here. The streets were hanged with arras and cloth of gold. Priests in their copes with crosses and censers stood on one side, and the citizens on the other. It rejoiced every man wondrously.”[112] The weather was so severe that the Thames was frozen, and the procession went down to Greenwich on the ice[113]. The King’s daughters had preceded him and were already established there[114]. Cromwell wrote to the English ambassadors in France on 24 December that it was false that the nobles had been forced to come to terms with the northern men because they distrusted their own levies. The King’s soldiers were entirely loyal. The King had consented to treat with the rebels only because of his merciful disposition and kindly wish to avoid bloodshed. The rebellion was now completely at an end. It was true that the rebels had at first attempted to make conditions, but finally “they submitted entirely to the King’s pleasure with the greatest repentance.”[115] On Christmas Eve Latimer preached at Paul’s Cross, “moving to unity without any special note of any man’s folly.”[116]