At some time between 1195 and 1361 the parish was largely depopulated by pestilence, so that many of the villein tenements, which had hitherto accounted for almost the whole population, came into the hands of freemen.

This may well refer to the Black Death; the priest at Spernall, Nicholas atte Yate, died in 1349 and there was another institution in 1351.

The survey of the clergy by the puritans in 1586 described the Rector Humphrey Style thus; "Humfrie Stile 'parson dumbe and unlearned a common alehousehaunter and of suspected life : Value xx markes by the yeare".

[9] Spernall is part of the Studley with Mappleborough Green ward of Stratford-on-Avon District Council and represented by Councillor Justin Kerridge, of the Conservative Party.

[10] Nationally it is part of Stratford-on-Avon parliamentary constituency, whose current MP following the 2010 election is Nadhim Zahawi Conservative.