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to his son Robert, to his unmarried daughter Bridget, to the children of his married daughter Rose Guybon and to the children of his son-in-law Thomas Jermyn. To 'my wife's daughter, Alice May', he bequeathed £26 13s 4d, 'which I recovered for her of May's executors', to be paid to her at the age of sixteen. A further sum of 5,000 marks was left in trust for future generations of Spring family members.
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Spring made his last will on 13 June 1523 as 'Thomas Spring of Lavenham, clothmaker', leaving to his wife Alice Spring all her apparel and jewels, 1,000 marks in money and half his plate and implements of household, with the other half to go to John his eldest son and heir. Spring also left bequests
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Alice Spring had been not just a beneficiary but also an executor of her husband's will. She is said to be the last notable "Spring of Laverham". She made the second largest donation to Suffolk's taxes in that year. Thomas, her second husband, had owned 25 East Anglian manors and Laverham had become
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Will of Thomas Spring (d.1523), Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. (1868). The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2. Lowestoft & London, pp. 171–2
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survives in Lavenham Church), by his wife Margaret Appleton. His father's will mentions Thomas and two other sons, William and James (slain 1493), as well as a daughter, Marian. He had another brother, John Spring, whose daughter, Margaret Spring, married Aubrey de Vere, second son of
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Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. (1868). The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2. Lowestoft & London, p.166
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which in his will he ordered his executors to erect. His widow, Alice, commissioned Flemish wood carvers to create a ten-foot high parclose screen around his tomb, which is one of the most intricate still in existence.
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The will of Thomas Spring's grandfather, Thomas I Spring (died 1440), mentions his wife, Agnes, his eldest son and heir, Thomas (d. 7 September 1486), another son William, and two daughters, Katherine and Dionyse.
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Spring inherited the family wool and cloth business from his father, and during his lifetime the cloth trade was at its most profitable. In 1502 he participated in identifying potential supporters of
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Thomas Spring was buried in the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Lavenham, before the altar of St Katherine, and his tomb was fenced in by the surviving elaborate wooden
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smuggled into England. In 1512, 1513 and 1517 his name appears as one of the commissioners for collecting taxation in Suffolk. In 1517 during the reign of
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Alice survived him by fifteen years. In her will, dated 13 April 1538, she mentions her daughter by Thomas Spring, Bridget, now the wife of
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Secondly he married a lady named Alice Appleton (died 1538), the widow of a man surnamed May, by whom he had a further daughter:
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Robert Spring (1502–1550), who left a will dated 10 October 1547 in which he mentions his wife Agnes, his eldest son and heir
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of Thomas II Spring (died 1486) and his wife Margaret Appleton, the parents of Thomas Spring (died 1523). Lavenham Church
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of the period and was one of the richest men in England. He has been described as the most important figure of the early
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of twenty-six manors in eastern England, and a landowner in over one hundred other manors. Spring is mentioned in
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Thomas Spring III was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Spring II (died 7 September 1486) of Lavenham (whose
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the fourteenth richest English town. The family later moved to Pakenham but their descendants married well.
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Will of Dame Dorothy Spring, widow, of Cockfield, Suffolk, proved 10 November 1564, National Archives
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Like his father, Thomas Spring was closely involved in the reconstruction and embellishment of
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Will of Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, clothmaker, proved 3 July 1523, National Archives
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Arms granted during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) to "Thomas Spring of Lavenham":
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Will of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, proved 16 December 1552, National Archives
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Burke states that Alice was Thomas Spring's first wife, and the mother of all his children;
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Parclose screen in Lavenham Church, erected as ordered by the will of Thomas Spring (d.1523)
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Will of Dame Bridget Hussey of West Wittering, Sussex, proved 2 May 1558, National Archives
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By the time of his death, Spring was believed to be the richest man in England outside the
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Will of Sir Henry Hussey of Slinfold, Sussex, proved 27 September 1557, National Archives
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Will of Thomas Appleton of Little Waldingfield, proved 9 February 1509, National Archives
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Erneley, William (1501-46), of Cakeham near West Wittering, Sussex, History of Parliament
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Will of Thomas Guybon of West Lynn, Norfolk, proved 14 November 1531, National Archives
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Will of William Erneley of Cakeham, Sussex, proved 28 February 1546, National Archives
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England
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Will of Alice Spring, widow, of Lavenham, proved 5 September 1538, National Archives
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The Springs of Lavenham: And the Suffolk Cloth Trade in the XV and XVI Centuries
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Betterton states that the daughter who married Sir Thomas Jermyn was Margaret;
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Will of John Spring of Hitcham, Suffolk, proved 21 May 1549, National Archives
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Will of Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge, Suffolk, proved 6 March 1527
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Argent, on a chevron between three mascles gules as many cinquefoils or
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of Thomas Spring sculpted on the base of the tower of Lavenham Church
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Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004).
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History of the Parish of Buxhall in the County of Suffolk
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in Lavenham. This was partly done in order to propitiate
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Index


Lavenham
Suffolk
Cloth merchant
Sir John Spring
Lavenham
Suffolk
English
cloth merchant
booming wool trade
Tudor

Monumental brass
monumental brass
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford

Merchant marks

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham
Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk
Henry VII
Low Countries
alum
Henry VIII
peerage
lord of the manor
John Skelton
St Peter and St Paul's Church
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

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