 During the Stour Valley anti-popery riots of 1642, Sir William Spring, Penelope Darcy's cousin, was ordered by Parliament to search the house, where it was thought arms for a Catholic insurrection were being stored.The Jesuit William Wright was arrested at Hengrave Hall.King James II visited Hengrave throughout the 1670s and attended the wedding of William Gage and Charlotte Bond in 1670.