Even the staunch Cranmer found the teenage Catherine's frantic, incoherent state pitiable, saying, "I found her in such lamentation and heaviness as I never saw no creature, so that it would have pitied any man's heart to have looked upon her."
Selv den stålsatte Cranmer fandt Catherines heftige og usammenhængende stammen ynkværdig og udtalte: ”Jeg fandt hende i en sådan oprørthed og tungsind, som jeg aldrig har set nogen skabninger før, at det ville have pint enhver mands hjerte at have set på hende” .