Appendix III
November 1541
2nd – All Souls – the Archbishop of Canterbury informs the king of John Lascelles’s claims about the queen’s premarital romances.
3rd – Either today or the day before, John Lascelles is questioned.
4th – Mary Hall is questioned in her home by the Earl of Southampton.
5th – Henry Manox is questioned at his home in Lambeth.
Francis Dereham is detained, ostensibly to answer questions about his alleged piracy in Ireland.
6th – The queen is informed of the allegations against her, and she is questioned by Archbishop Cranmer for the first time.
The king leaves Hampton Court and spends the night at Whitehall.
7th – The queen confesses her involvement with Francis Dereham to Cranmer.
8th – Rumours circulate in the court that the queen is barren and that Anne of Cleves may be rehabilitated.
11th – Orders are given to move the queen to Syon Abbey.
12th – The Lord Chancellor informs the rest of the Privy Council of the charges against the queen.
13th – Mary Hall and Alice Restwold are summoned to Westminster to answer questions about the queen’s activities before her marriage. Katherine Tilney is questioned by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.
Thomas Culpepper is interrogated for the first time.
14th – The queen is moved to Syon Abbey.
The queen’s household is disbanded.
Jane, Lady Rochford, is questioned and states that she believes the queen has committed adultery.
Margaret Morton is asked about the queen’s behaviour during the progress to the north.
Thomas Culpepper’s goods are inventoried.
15th – Lady Margaret Howard testifies about the queen’s intimacy with Francis Dereham, before her marriage.
Andrew Maunsay is interviewed.
16th – Lady Rochford’s goods are inventoried.
17th – Lady Rochford is entrusted to the care of Lady Russell, after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Lord Russell informs Eustace Chapuys that the queen is suspected of adultery with Culpepper.
19th – Rumours are circulating that the queen will be pardoned.
20th – The King of France discusses the scandal with the English ambassadors.
22nd – Catherine is stripped of her title as queen.
23rd – The King of France writes to Henry VIII with commiserations on Catherine’s behaviour.
Writs are issued to summon Parliament.
24th – The first indictment against the queen is published.
30th – Katherine Tilney is questioned again, this time about the queen’s behaviour in the north.
December
1st – Trial of Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpepper at the Guildhall, London.
2nd – Catherine’s brothers and the Earl of Surrey ride through the streets of London to advertise their lack of complicity.
3rd – Robert Damport is questioned for the second consecutive day.
4th – The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk is taken in for questioning.
5th – The interrogation of the dowager duchess. The Countess of Bridgewater is committed to the wardship of the Earl of Southampton.
At Syon, Catherine is once again questioned about how Francis Dereham entered her household.
6th – Norfolk House is locked up.
Robert Damport alleges that Francis Dereham hoped that the king would die, so he could marry Catherine.
The Countess of Bridgewater’s maid is among those questioned.
7th – The order is given to torture Robert Damport and Francis Dereham.
8th – The Feast of the Immaculate Conception – interrogation of the Countess of Bridgewater.
Mary Hall is pardoned.
9th – Thomas Culpepper’s death warrant is signed.
Lord William Howard offends his interrogators with his ‘stiff’ manner.
The goods of Lord William Howard and the Countess of Bridgewater are inventoried.
10th – Execution at Tyburn of Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham
11th – The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk is sent to the Tower.
Anne of Cleves’s chamberlain, Sir William Goring, and her house steward are ordered to appear before the Privy Council to answer allegations that Anne had given birth to a bastard child.
13th – Caretakers are appointed for the Howards’ seized London properties.
The Countess of Bridgewater’s three children are committed to ward.
15th – The Duke of Norfolk writes a letter disowning his imprisoned relatives.
22nd – Lord William Howard, his wife Margaret, Katherine Tilney, William Ashby, Robert Damport, and Margaret Benet are all arraigned for treason.
January 1542
16th – Opening of Parliament.
The queen’s prosecution is discussed in the House of Lords.
The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and the Countess of Bridgewater are attainted for treason.
26th – The Emperor Charles V orders Eustace Chapuys to prevent Anne of Cleves’s restoration, if rumours about it prove to be accurate.
28th – The House of Lords proposes sending a delegation to Syon to offer Catherine the opportunity to stand trial.
29th – The queen and Lady Rochford are condemned to death by act of attainder.
February
1st week – Catherine rejects the offer of a trial by her peers.
7th – Sir John Gage visits Syon to disband what remains of Catherine’s household.
10th – Catherine is taken to the Tower.
11th – Catherine and Lady Rochford’s death sentences are read out to both houses of Parliament.
12th – The former queen makes her last confession.
13th – Catherine Howard and Jane, Lady Rochford, are beheaded at the Tower.