William Spurstow (merchant)

William Spurstow (died 1644) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644.

Spurstow was the son of a Shropshire shearman and became a freeman of Shrewsbury in 1597.

In 1606, he was largely responsible for a Bill in parliament which relieved Welsh cloth from the need to have a seal of content.

He was a member of the congregation of St Stephen Coleman Street, and the Massachusetts Bay Company two strongly puritan organisations which were opposed to Crown and Church between 1629 and 1640.

[1] He left charitable donations which included £300 to Shrewsbury to set poor up in work.