Henry Nevill, de facto 9th Baron Bergavenny was an English iron founder, soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622 when he inherited the Baron Bergavenny peerage.
Sir Henry Maynard (1547–1610) was an English politician and secretary to Lord Burghley, and became a substantial landowner.
Sir William Craven was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1610. It has been noted that the story of Dick Whittington has some similarities to Craven's career, though the story was first published before Craven became Lord Mayor.
Sir John Watts was an English merchant, Alderman and shipowner, active in the East India Company and Virginia Company and Lord Mayor of London in 1606.
Sir Richard Saltonstall was an English merchant and politician who served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1599.
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell was an English peer. He was the son of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell by his wife Mary, daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester and his first wife Elizabeth Willoughby. His grandfather, Gregory, son of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, was created Baron Cromwell on 18 December 1540.
Sir John Garrard, sometimes spelled Gerrard, was a merchant and alderman of the City of London, six times Master of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a Buckinghamshire landowner, and Lord Mayor of London for the year 1601 to 1602.
Sir James Altham, of Oxhey, Hertfordshire, was an English judge, briefly a member of the Parliament of England, and a Baron of the Exchequer. A friend of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, Altham opposed Edward Coke but advanced the laws of equity behind the fastness of the Exchequer courts, so long considered almost inferior. Through advanced Jacobean royalism he helped to prosecute the King's enemies and centralise royal power of taxation. With Sir Edward Bromley, he presided at the Lancashire witch trials in 1612.
Sir Thomas Smythe was an English merchant, politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620 until enveloped by scandal.
Sir Stephen Soame was an English merchant, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. He served as Lord Mayor of London for the year 1598 to 1599.
Richard Berkeley (1579–1661) of Stoke Gifford and Rendcomb both in Gloucestershire, England, served as a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1614.
Sir Edward Barkham was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1621. He derived from the Barkham family of South Acre, Norfolk.
Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire was MP for Gloucestershire in 1604. He had previously served as Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1564, and as Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1568. In 1595 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London. In 1599 he was appointed custodian of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who was kept under house arrest at Essex House in London. He died in 1604, whilst serving as MP, and was buried in The Gaunts Chapel, Bristol, where exists an effigy of him, which chapel had been founded in 1220 by Maurice de Gaunt, a member of the Berkeley family, and which stands opposite St Augustine's Abbey, founded by a member of the Berkeley family of nearby Berkeley Castle.
Sir John Leigh was an English landowner, soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1611.
Edmund Withypoll, Esquire, of London, of Walthamstow, Essex, and of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English merchant, money-lender, landowner, sheriff and politician, who established his family in his mother's native county of Suffolk, and built Christchurch Mansion, a distinguished surviving Tudor house, as his Ipswich home.
Thomas Colepeper was an English Member of Parliament.
Sir James Harvey was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1581.
Sir Thomas Caesar (1561–1610), judge, was the second son of Dr. Caesar Adelmare, court physician to Queens Mary and Elizabeth, and brother to Sir Julius Caesar.
Sir John Weld was a wealthy landowner and London merchant, the son of a Lord Mayor of London and the father of the branch of the Weld family which became settled at Lulworth Castle in Dorset. He was a charter member and Council assistant of the Newfoundland Company of 1610.
Robert Myddelton was a Welsh politician who served as MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the City of London in the Parliament of England.
