The regretted

On January 15 1569, Catherine Knolly,  née Carey, Henry sister (and probably his closest blood relative alive) died. She is an interesting character in her own right, but I always had certain trouble talking about her until now (yea the time she bite the bust truly the best moment!). I always thought the idea of exploring the relationship between the brother and sister was a good idea, but most of my research resulted in very little result. I'm not even sure they had much crossing together in their youth (Catherine was put on a path to becoming a lady in waitting for Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard and his own education seem to have been taken place in another location). Hell if you look at calendar, at the time Henry does seem to mention her death, though remember most of his correspondence seem to be lost.

I will recommend reading the being bess article as it give interesting account of the whole Elizabeth/Catherine/Francis Knolly relationship. (Though its nice to see that Apparently her husband quite loved her)

To be Frank

My perusing on various topic, brough me something unexpected that I seem to have overlook, mainly Henry apparent involvement with the Marian exile.

Just for a little bit of context, Marian exile are essentially protestant who decided to go out of England once Queen Mary tried to bring back England into the catholic church. Amongst them was Catherine Carey, Henry as I mention before, Henry preferred to stay, but was involved in preventing the ceasing of the asset of the exiled. 

With Elizabeth ascension to the throne, Henry seem to have been a part of something called the "Frankfurt refusal" where the protestant in Frankfurt decided not to join in those in Geneva in anti-ceremonial crusade and to tell the exiles they would be part of the coming religious reform.  THough he wasn't acting on his own accord here, but as an agent of the British government .

However is involvement isn't 100%, it is mostly brought forth by the one book on Marian exile I've found. (Source and here ) that tell us that the name "Henry Carowe" is in fact Henry Carey (I think this is believable, considering just how many way I've seen Carey being spelled down and how apparently the guy vanish afterward, despite being a government courier)

You can find the declaration in question here at page CLXXXVII. 

On a smaller note, Marian exiles, seem to talk about how Sir John Carey was Mary custodian at Hunsdon (Henry Uncle remember him) was (page 319) before Edward death (and his own),  when I see that kind of thing I keep wondering if it had any reason in the choice of this particular barony for Henry.