[1] [2] [3] After he had béene at Yorke twelue daies,Hull fortifie [...] he came to Hull, where he deuised certeine fortificati|ons. This doone, he passed ouer the water of Hum|ber, and so through Lincolneshire, returned toward the south parts, and at Alhallowen tide came to Hampton court. About the same time, the king had knowledge that the quéene liued dissolutelie, in v|sing the vnlawfull companie of one Francis Di|ram,Diram and Culpeper quéene Ka|tharins para|mours. with whome she had beene too familiar before hir maraiage with the king; & not meaning to for|go his companie now in time of hir marriage, with|out regard had either to the feare of God, or the king hir husband, the last summer being in progresse with the king at Pomfret, the seuen and twentith of Au|gust, she reteined the said Francis Diram in hir ser|uice, to the intent she might vse his companie in such vnlawfull sort the more freelie: and not satisfied with him, she also vsed the vnlawfull companie of Tho|mas Culpeper esquire, one of the gentlemen of the kings priuie chamber, as well at Pomfret aforesaid on the nine and twentith and last of August afore|said, and on the first of September,At Lincolne (saith Hall) in August, wher she gaue to him a rich cap and a chaine. as at diuerse o|ther times and places before and after. Wherevpon, the thirtéenth of Nouember, sir Thomas Wriothes|leie knight the kings secretarie, came to Hampton court vnto the said quéene, and called all hir ladies, gentlewomen, and seruants into hir great chamber, & there openlie in presence of them all, declared hir offenses committed in abusing of hir bodie before hir mariage, & therwith he discharged hir houshold.Quéene Ka|tharine detes|ted of inconti|nent liuing. The morrow after she was conueied to Sion, the ladie Bainton and certeine gentlewomen and some of hir seruants being appointed to wait vpon hir there, till the kings pleasure might be further knowen. Cul|peper, Diram, and others were had to the tower. Di|ram in his examination being charged with the fa|miliaritie which had béene betwixt them, before she was married to the king, confessed that he and she said quéene had made a precontract togither, and that he concealed it for hir preferment in marriage to the king, after he vnderstood the king began to cast a li|king towards hir.