Sir John Spring (died 12 August 1547),[1] of Lavenham, Buxhall, Hitcham, and Cockfield, Suffolk, was an English merchant and politician.
[5] Spring aided the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk in suppressing the Lavenham revolt of 1525, by removing the bells from the Church of St Peter and St Paul, meaning the rebels could not be called to arms.
[6] Spring made his last will on 8 June 1544 as 'John Spring of Hitcham, esquire', leaving bequests to his wife, Dorothy, his father-in-law, Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge in Bures St Mary, and mother-in-law, Margery (née Wentworth) Waldegrave, his son and heir, William, his son-in-law, Edmund Wright, and his unmarried daughter, Bridget, and expressing the wish that Sir William Drury should 'have the marriage of my son [William] before any other'.
[8] Sir John Spring's great-great-grandson was made a baronet by Charles I.
[9] Spring married Dorothy Waldegrave, the daughter of Sir William Waldegrave,[10] by whom he had a son and two daughters: Sir John Spring's widow, Dorothy, was buried 10 April 1564.