For the year 1524 there {92} was no general manifesto put forward, but there were negotiations between the insurgents and their quondam masters.

In this district or in that, lists of very specific grievances were presented and redress demanded.

In some cases merely to gain time, in others sincerely, the lords consented to reply to these petitions.
They denied this or that charge, and they promised to end this or that form of oppression.

Neither side was prepared for civil war.

In all it was more like a modern strike than anything else.
In the early months of 1525 several programs were drawn up of a more general nature than those previously composed, and yet by no means radical.