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Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, and of Co.Kerry

Thomas Spring.
He was a clothier, of Lavenham, Suffolk.
Lavenham was a wealthy wool town. In the medieval period it was one of the wealthiest towns in England.
He mar Agnes ----.
He died 1440.
Thomas and Agnes had issue:

Thomas Spring.
He was a clothier, of Lavenham.
He mar Margaret ----.
He built the vesty in St Peter and St Paul's church in Lavenham.
His will dated 29 Mar 1486.
He died 7 Sept 1486.
He was bur in vestry in church in Lavenham. There is a brass there.
Will pr 12 Sept 1486. See will on p.170 of [Visitation of Suffolk].
[Visitation of Suffolk] reads the tomb as saying Margaret died 1480. But in the same text it shows that Thomas' will, in Latin, 1486, refers to Margaret as alive and appoints her as one of his executors.
Thomas and Margaret had issue:

1. Thomas Spring.
   "The rich clothier", of Lavenham.

Brass of Thomas Spring (died 1486) and Margaret his wife.
Lavenham church, Suffolk.
From jmc4 on Flickr. Used with permission.

Other image of the brass of Thomas Spring and Margaret his wife.
From jmc4 on Flickr. Used with permission.

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References

• SPRING on p.165 of The visitation of Suffolke, vol.1 (1866).
  • Pedigree on p.201. See rotated p.1 and p.2 and p.3 and p.4 and p.5.

• SPRING of Castlemayne in [Burkes Landed Gentry, 1879, p.1503].

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Sources yet to be consulted

• SPRING in [Rowan, 1846]
• Spring in [Denny, 1923]
• McClenaghan, Barbara (1924). The Springs of Lavenham: And the Suffolk Cloth Trade in the XV and XVI Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, and branches in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, William Anthony Spring and Jane Vivien Spring.
  • 1st edn, 1995.
  • 2nd edn, April 2000.

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• Spring family

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