page_title: Thomas Spring of Lavenham
section_title: Death and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Spring of Lavenham / Death and burial
caption_attribution_description: English: Parclose screen in Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk, erected as requested in the will of Thomas Spring (c. 1474 – 1523), (alias Thomas Spring III or The Rich Clothier).
context_page_description: Thomas Spring, of Lavenham in Suffolk, was an English cloth merchant. He consolidated his father's business to become one of the most successful in the booming wool trade of the period and was one of the richest men in England.
context_section_description: Spring made his last will on 13 June 1523 as 'Thomas Spring of Lavenham, clothmaker', leaving to his wife Alice 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 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.
  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 parclose screen which in his will he ordered his executors to erect. His widow commissioned Flemish wood carvers to create a ten-foot high parclose screen around his tomb, which is one of the most intricate of its type still in existence.
caption: Parclose screen in Lavenham Church, erected as ordered by the will of Thomas Spring (d.1523)
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