Henry Goodere
Henry Goodere may refer to: * Sir Henry Goodere (politician) Sir Henry Goodere (1534–1595) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament for Stafford (1563) and Coventry (1571), and a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family background He was the son of Francis Goodere of Polesworth Hall and Ursula Ro ... (1534–1595), English landowner and member of parliament * Sir Henry Goodere (courtier) (c. 1571–1627), English landowner and courtier {{hndis, Goodere, Henry ...
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Henry Goodere (politician)
Sir Henry Goodere (1534–1595) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament for Stafford (1563) and Coventry (1571), and a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family background He was the son of Francis Goodere of Polesworth Hall and Ursula Rowlett. Career He went to meet Mary, Queen of Scots in 1568 at Workington when she first came into England from Scotland. He gave her a cipher code to write to her friends. Goodere was held in the Tower of London in 1571 and interviewed by his family relative William Cecil and the Earl of Southampton on suspicion of treason, in connection with a plan for Mary to marry the Duke of Norfolk and the Ridolfi plot. He was questioned about a plan for Mary to escape and be escorted by Gerard Lowther to one of his houses, a former abbey. Goodere wrote a poem defending the Scottish queen, "If former good could answer present ill". His political enemy Thomas Norton responded to the poem with another verse. He was released and subsequently knighted ...
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