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Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet (1613 – 17 December 1654) was an English Parliamentarian politician and a member of the Spring family of Pakenham, Suffolk. LifeWilliam was the son of Sir William Spring (died 1637) and his wife Elizabeth Smith. Like his father, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The only surviving son, he inherited the family lands from his father, including Pakenham Hall and Cockfield Hall.[1] He lived for many years at Newe House, Pakenham, which he purchased from Sir Robert Bright. Spring was knighted by Charles I and served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1641. During the Stour Valley anti-popery riots of August 1642, Sir William was ordered by Parliament to search Hengrave Hall, the house of his cousin, Lady Penelope Darcy, where it was thought arms for a Catholic insurrection were being stored.[2] He was created a baronet, of Pakenham in the Baronetage of England, on 11 August 1642 by Charles I. This was despite Spring being widely known as a committed Parliamentarian who openly opposed the king's policies. Throughout the Civil War Spring travelled the eastern counties of England, helping to recruit soldiers to the Parliamentarian army and maintain Parliament's control of East Anglia. Although there is no evidence that Sir William engaged in armed combat on behalf of the cause of Parliament, he was a prominent member of the Bury St. Edmunds Committee of the Eastern Association, which recruited men for Cromwell's Ironsides. He was in regular correspondence with Oliver Cromwell, who notably wrote to Spring regarding the Good Old Cause. In summer 1643, Spring refused to recognise a troop of Ironsides raised by Captain Raphe Margery, as Spring deemed Margery, who was not from a gentry family, to be too low-born to lead men into battle.[3] Cromwell intervened, telling Spring that he did not care which social class his soldiers came from, as long as they believed in Parliament's cause. In September 1643, Cromwell wrote to Spring, saying: I had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else.[4] He was a staunch friend of Sir Nicholas Barnardiston of Kedington, a notable advocate of the Puritan cause, upon whose death he wrote an acrostic elegy.[5] Spring was elected in 1645 as a recruiter for the Long Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, and sat from 1646 to 1648, when he was secluded by Pride's Purge.[6] Spring sat in the First Protectorate Parliament for Suffolk in 1654 and died at the end of that year. He was buried on 19 December;[7] his eldest son William succeeded him. FamilyWilliam married Elizabeth L'Estrange, the daughter of Sir Hamon L'Estrange, with whom he had six children:[8]
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(of Pakenham) | years=1641–1654}}{{s-aft | after=Sir William Spring}}{{s-par|uk}}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds | years = 1646–1648 | before = Sir Thomas Jermyn | after = Samuel Moody }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Suffolk | years = 1654 | before = Jacob Caley | after = Sir Thomas Barnardiston }}{{s-end}}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spring, William, 1st Baronet}} 10 : 1613 births|1654 deaths|Baronets in the Baronetage of England|High Sheriffs of Suffolk|Spring family|Roundheads|17th-century English Puritans|English MPs 1640–1648|English MPs 1654–1655|Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
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