As this week has been the anniversary of the execution of Catherine Howard, I thought I'd look at the bill of attainder against her and also whether she was guilty of high treason.
Notes and Sources
- Warnicke, Retha (2004) ‘Katherine [Katherine Howard] (1518×24–1542)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
- Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 17, 28 ii Acts printed in the Statutes at Large, but not entered on the Parliament Roll, C21 - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol17/pp10-19
- Indictment found at Doncaster, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 16, 1395. See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol16/pp644-660
- LP xvii. 28 xv c. 20, o.n. 33 of the year 37 Hen. VIII.
- ed. Wharton, Thomas I., Esq (1842) The Law Library, Volume 38, John S. Littell, p.230.
- The Treasons Act 1534 (26 Hen. 8. c. 13), Tudor Constitutional Documents A.D. 1485-1603: With an Historical Commentary by Joseph Robson Tanner.
- Baldwin Smith, Lacey (2009) Catherine Howard: The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII, Amberley Publishing.
- Russell, Gareth (2017) Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII, William Collins.
Hansard, Thomas Curson (1821) The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 3, Great Britain. Parliament, p754.