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Jane Parker, Lady Rochford - December 1541

On This Day (01 Dec) in 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were tried for high treason, for their alleged adultery with Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen.

The men were escorted from the Tower of London by the Tower's Constable Sir John Gage, to the City of London's Guildhall. Both men were found guilty of treason, and given the sentence of death. Due to his social standing as a member of the Privy Chamber, Culpeper's sentence was commuted to beheading; however, Dereham's sentence remained that of hanging, drawing, beheading and quartering - a traitor's death. The death warrants were signed by the king on 09 Dec, and both men were executed at Tyburn on 10 Dec, their decapitated heads later placed on spikes on London Bridge.

Katherine had been stripped of her position as Queen two weeks previously; her household had been dissolved, and she had been moved to the former monastery at Syon to await her fate.

Jane Parker, Lady Rochford, one of Katherine's highest ranking ladies-in-waiting had been arrested following questioning, led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer at Hampton Court Palace. Blame had been placed on her by both Katherine and Culpeper, and so Jane was taken to the Tower of London with a view of further questioning. However, within two days of her incarceration, she was "seized with a fit of madness by which her brain is affected". Jane was subsequently moved out of the Tower to Russell House, located on The Strand, Westminster under the care and supervision of Anne Sapcote, Lady Russell - wife of John Russell, Lord High Admiral, and mother of Francis Russell, the future 2nd Earl of Bedford.

Whilst at Russell House, Henry VIII sent his physicians to her daily, as it was said that he was eager for her to recover, as at the time it was not legal for a person presenting with 'lunacy' to be tried for high treason; Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys suggested that Jane was likely to have been tried (and convicted) alongside Culpeper and Dereham on 01 Dec if there had not been these concerns and legal obstacles.

The Madness of Jane Parker, Lady Rochford (November 1541 - February 1542)

On 13 February 1542, Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford, was led to a scaffold that had been erected on Tower Green, within the Liberties of

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Torrance Coombs as Thomas Culpeper in The Tudors (2007-2010)

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Tudor Week 2022 day 4/7: Favorite Tudor related relic

Katherine Howard’s letter to Thomas Culpeper, c.1541

“Master Culpeper,

I heartily recommend me unto you, praying you to send me word how that you do. It was showed me that you was sick, the which thing troubled me very much till such time that I hear from you praying you to send me word how that you do, for I never longed so much for a thing as I do to see you and to speak with you, the which I trust shall be shortly now. That which doth comfortly me very much when I think of it, and when I think again that you shall depart from me again it makes my heart die to think what fortune I have that I cannot be always in your company. It my trust is always in you that you will be as you have promised me, and in that hope I trust upon still, praying you that you will come when my Lady Rochford is here for then I shall be best at leisure to be at your commandment, thanking you for that you have promised me to be so good unto that poor fellow my man which is one of the griefs that I do feel to depart from him for then I do know no one that I dare trust to send to you, and therefore I pray you take him to be with you that I may sometime hear from you one thing. I pray you to give me a horse for my man for I had much ado to get one and therefore I pray send me one by him and in so doing I am as I said afor, and thus I take my leave of you, trusting to see you shortly again and I would you was with me now that you might see what pain I take in writing to you.

Yours as long as life endures,

Katheryn.

One thing I had forgotten and that is to instruct my man to tarry here with me still for he says whatsomever you bid him he will do it.”

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