1655–1695) was an English pamphleteer, known for his republican work A Modest Plea (1659) He was born in or near Banbury, Oxfordshire, a younger son of William Sprigg, steward of New College, Oxford, and brother of Joshua Sprigg.
(12 October), and was elected (11 December) fellow of Lincoln on the recommendation of the chancellor of the university, Oliver Cromwell.
He was admitted on 27 November 1657 a member of Gray's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1664.
He had been ejected from the Lincoln fellowship on the Restoration, and soon after his call to the bar he migrated to Dublin, where he married and resided for some years.
On his brother's death in 1684 he returned to England, and thenceforth resided on the Crayford estate.