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.
[2] 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,[3] in connection with a plan for Mary to marry the Duke of Norfolk and the Ridolfi plot.
[4] He was questioned about a plan for Mary to escape and be escorted by Gerard Lowther to one of his houses, a former abbey.
[5] Goodere wrote a poem defending the Scottish queen, "If former good could answer present ill".
[8] The younger Henry Goodere was the founder of "the Polesworth Circle", a private organization that influenced most of Great Britain through Shakespeare's literary works, Inigo Jones' architectural work and Michael Drayton's poetry.