Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt

There were riots at Brigstock in May and Mordaunt went to read a royal proclamation to restore order.

[3] Henry Mordaunt entertained King James and Anne of Denmark at his house at Drayton, Northamptonshire, with musicians and singers in August 1605.

[5] Later there were rumours that there had been a plot to kill King James at Drayton during this visit during a masque entertainment.

Two Gunpowder Plot conspirators Ambrose Rookwood and Thomas Winter had been at Drayton on the day before King James arrived.

[6] Mordaunt was imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, for his correspondence with Everard Digby.