 Clancy wrote Irving, who "...promptly aided the investigation into the truth, and promised to correct in future editions the misrepresentation complained of..." Clancy traveled to his new posting by way of England, and bearing a letter of introduction from Irving, stopped at Newstead Abbey and was able to view the document to which Irving had alluded.Upon inspection, Clancy discovered that the document was not any sort of indulgence issued to the friars from any ecclesiastical authority, but a pardon given by the king to some parties suspected of having broken "forest laws".Clancy requested the local pastor to forward his findings to Catholic periodicals in England, and upon publication, forward a copy to Irving.