After Catherine became Queen, Mary's brother, the religious reformer John Lassells,[1] suggested that his sister seek a place in her household.
John Lassells informed Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Mary's comment while King Henry and Queen Catherine were on progress in the fall of 1541.
Cranmer questioned Mary, who provided details of the Queen's earlier sexual indiscretions with her music master, Henry Manox, and a Howard kinsman,[2] Francis Dereham, in the Dowager Duchess's household.
On 1 November 1541 Cranmer revealed these indiscretions in a letter to the King, who immediately ordered that Queen Catherine be confined to her apartments, and never saw her again.
[3] The Dowager Duchess, hearing reports of what had happened while Catherine had been in her charge, reasoned that 'If there be none offence sithence the marriage, she cannot die for that was done before'.