John Spring

John Spring was landowner, merchant and civic official of Northampton. He was in business of manufacturing of woolen clothes as seen from the alnage accounts for Northamptonshire in November 1395 when he paid the unusually high subsidy of 3s.1¼d. on cloth.

John Spring was clearly a man of some consequence in Northampton, for besides representing the town in Parliament in 1399 and serving two terms as mayor (1410-11, 1414-16), he was also one of the few burgesses to hold office in the county as a tax collector in 1398. It is unclear how much much property he owned, but his possessions included at least two acres of farmland in the neighbouring village of Coton together with a garden, a grove of walnut trees and other land in Northampton itself.