ons.[996] But there were wilder
spirits at work over which he had little control. They declared that
they were betrayed. Plots were formed to seize Hull and Scarborough;
both were discovered.[997] Aske, Constable, and other leaders of the
original Pilgrimage of Grace exerted themselves to stay this outbreak
of their more violent followers; and between moderates and extremists
the whole movement quickly collapsed. The second revolt gave Henry an
excuse for recalling his pardon, and for exacting revenge from all who
had been implicated in either movement. Darcy deserved little pity;
the earliest in his treason, he continued the game to the end; but
Aske was an honest man, and his execution, condemned though he was by
a jury, was a violent act of injustice.[998] Norfolk was sent to the
North on a Bloody Assize,[999] and if neither he nor the King was a
Jeffreys, the rebellion was stamped out with a good deal of superfluous
cruelty. Henry was resolved to do the work once and for all, and he
based his system on terror. His measures for the future government of
the North, now threatened by James V., were, however, wise on the
whole. He would put no more nobles in places of trust; the office of
Warden of the Marches he took into his own hands, appointing three
deputies of somewhat humble rank for the east, middle and west
marches.[1000] A strong Council of the North was appointed to (p. 358)
sit at York, under the presidency of Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, and
with powers almost as extensive as those of the Privy Council at
London; and henceforth Henry had little trouble from disaffection in
England.[1001]

[Footnote 994: _L. and P._, xi., 1244-46.]

[Footnote 995: _Ibid._, xi., 1306.]

[Footnote 996: _L. and P._, XII., i., 20, 23, 43,
44, 46.]

[Footnote 997: _Ibid._, XII., i., 46, 64, 102, 104,
141, 142.]

[Footnote 998: Henry, says Dr. Gairdner, examined
"the evidence sent up to him in the spirit of a
detective policeman" (XII., i., p. xxix.).]

[Footnote 999: _L. and P._, XII., i., 227, 228,
401, 402, 416, 457, 458, 468, 478, 498.]

[Footnote 1000: _L. and P._, XII., i., 594, 595,
636, 667. Norfolk thought Henry's plan was to
govern the North by the